… Filling Ternus’s former role as SVP of hardware engineering will be the wizard behind Apple’s silicon strategy, Johny Srouji. Srouji led a movement that shifted the focus of Apple’s hardware operations from design to custom chips. …
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… Ming-Chi Kuo, the famed Apple analyst, pointed out on X that Ternus’ most important move in recent years “was leading the Mac transition from x86 Intel to ARM Apple’s own Apple Silicon .” This was a “system- and platform-level transition, essentially a brain transplant” that required “a very high l… …
Picture the three founders, all former Apple employees, two of whom—software engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson—were already Silicon Valley legends for their work creating the Apple Macintosh. …
… Then there’s Private Cloud Compute, Apple’s server-based AI system, which uses a more complex LLM to handle heavier requests. This operates via Apple’s cloud: running entirely on custom Apple Silicon servers, in PCC-specific data centers and with end-to-end encryption. …
… That's why the company developed Polar ID, a facial authentication platform to rival Apple's Face ID. …
… It’s subtle, but it’s something only Apple can do, as the company owns both the hardware and software. …
… Ternus is a longtime hardware engineer who’s continuing Apple's history of product people versus AI people, software people, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I think on the one hand, yes, Apple is behind in this AI race. …
… If you're already bought into the Apple ecosystem with iPhones or iPads, MacBooks have several software features such as AirDrop and Universal Control that are legitimately convenient, and Apple makes some of the best laptop hardware in the game. …