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Original Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/22/01/12/211212/microsoft-hires-key-apple-engineer-to-work-on-custom-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=f
Microsoft Hires Key Apple Engineer To Work on Custom Chips
Microsoft lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. From a report: Mike Filippo will work on processors within Microsoft's Azure group, run by Rani Borkar, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the move hasn't been announced. A Microsoft spokesman confirmed the hire of Filippo, who also has worked at Arm and Intel. The move suggests that Microsoft is accelerating a push to create homegrown chips for its servers, which power Azure cloud-computing services. The focus on custom chips follows similar efforts by Alphabet's Google and Amazon, Microsoft's biggest cloud rivals.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/22/01/12/211212/microsoft-hires-key-apple-engineer-to-work-on-custom-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=f
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