Apple poached Intels 5G leader weeks ahead of Qualcomm truce Engadget
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Evan Rodgers/Engadget Intel's selection to bail on 5G modems may additionally have long gone hand-in-hand with Apple's truce with Qualcomm, but it's now clean there have been tips of a shift weeks earlier. The Telegraph has learned that Apple poached Intel's 5G phone modem leader, Umashankar Thyagarajan, in February. While the departure itself wasn't a entire secret (Thyagarajan's LinkedIn profile confirms the switch), the news outlet claims to have e mail showing that the ex-director become the task engineer for the XMM 8160 chip on the coronary heart of Intel's plans. He also "played a key role" developing the Intel modems used inside the iPhone XS and XR.
Neither Apple nor Intel has commented at the record. It's additionally now not clean precisely what Thyagarajan is doing in his new position (he describes it totally as "Architecture" in his LinkedIn bio), although wireless chipset layout is the maximum possibly rationalization given his background.
Apple hasn't been shy approximately its intentions to make its own mobile chipsets. The employer has been recruiting applicable expertise for a while, and went up to now as to expand its presence in San Diego in a flow interpreted as an try and recruit Qualcomm workforce. However, Thyagarajan's lease is a especially massive coup for Apple -- it indicates the business enterprise is determined to snap up top-degree talent as it begins on cell hardware, inclusive of human beings from its erstwhile partners.
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2019-04-28 19:58:06Z
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