Jeff Wilcox, Apple's former Director of Mac System Architecture, left the company to work at Intel. Wilcox was part of Apple's M1 team and he had a key role in the transition from Intel chips to Apple Silicon.
Wilcox developed the system architecture for the T2 coprocessor used in Intel Macs, and he "led the transition" for all Macs to Apple Silicon, according to his profile.
The director of the Mac system architecture team included all the system architecture, signal integrity and power integrity. The system architecture behind the T2 coprocessor was developed before the transition to Apple Silicon.
Wilcox said that he was proud of what he had done at Apple when he left in December.
I have decided to leave Apple and pursue another opportunity after eight years. It has been an incredible ride and I could not be prouder of all we accomplished during my time there, including the Apple Silicon transition with the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max SOCs and systems. I will miss my Apple colleagues and friends, but I am looking forward to the next journey which will start at the first of the year.
Wilcox has been the Design Engineering Group CTO at Intel, after eight years at Apple. Wilcox will be responsible for the architecture of all of the Intel client segments. Wilcox worked at Intel where he was a principal engineer on PC chipsets, and before that he worked at other companies.
Johny Srouji, Apple's vice president of hardware technologies, is the leader of the Apple Silicon team and it's not clear if Wilcox's departure will have much impact on the development of Apple chips. The launch of new Mac Pro and iMac Pro machines that use Apple Silicon chips is expected in 2022.
In October, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said that he hopes to win back Apple's business in the future by creating a better chip than Apple can make. He said that he is going to make sure that Intel's products are better than theirs, and that Intel has a more open and vibrant environment. He said he would fight hard to win Tim's business.
The new Core i9 processor from Intel is faster than the M1 Max chip used in the MacBook Pro models, according to the company.
