Google has hired John Bruno, a well-known chip designer from Apple, as seen by his LinkedIn profile. Bruno served at Apple for five years before joining Google this month.
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Google has employed John Bruno, a well known chip designer from Apple, as seen by his LinkedIn profile. Bruno served at Apple for 5 years earlier than becoming a member of Google this month.
In keeping with a report by The Info, Bruno has run the silicon aggressive evaluation group on the Cupertino-based iPhone maker. The group was accountable for ensuring Apple stayed forward of its rivals, 9to5Google studies. He has labored on a sequence of iPhone chips since 2012.
In keeping with his LinkedIn profile, Bruno began at graphics agency ATI and have become a chief engineer at chip producer AMD earlier than becoming a member of Apple. The LinkedIn profile offers his designation as Programs Architect, the identical title he held at Apple – and it is not instantly clear what he’d be doing at Google.
With this hiring, Google will in all probability intention to develop full-fledged specialised chips for its telephones, the report notes. “It is doubtless that Google will take a few of that in-house expertise in constructing AI chips to help within the improvement of a client chipset, stated Jim McGregor, principal analyst and founding father of Tirias Analysis,” the report reads.
Google at present has just one piece of customized silicon in its , and that is the Pixel Visible Core imaging chip inside Pixel 2 smartphones. With the rent, Google might come one step nearer to providing gadgets the place it builds its personal and software program, identical to Apple, guaranteeing an identical degree of optimisation.
The Mountain View, California-based firm has employed a number of skilled chip engineers from Apple within the current previous, the report notes, together with Manu Gulati, Wonjae (Gregory) Choi, and Tayo Fadelu, in addition to Qualcomm engineers. Gulati was instrumental in growing Apple’s A-Collection of customized cell SoCs.
Written with inputs from IANS
