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Google Hires Key Chip Designer Manu Gulati From Apple

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-is-that-non-compete dept.

oakgrove writes:

Google has hired key chip designer Manu Gulati from Apple to work on future Pixel models. Manu Gulati has been working at Apple since 2009 helping develop the custom CPUs used in iPads and iPhones and has now moved on to Google as lead chip architect. Pixel and Pixel XL have so far relied on Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm which lag considerably behind Apple's SOCs. Googles appears to be reconsidering this strategy in an effort to better integrate it's software and hardware improving performance and battery life. Android makers have long foregone the lead to Apple in mobile performance but this may signal a turning point in this strategy.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:45AM (#525858)

    Bake the backdoors directly into hardware. Fuck those open sourcers up their penniless asses!! Fucking poor people. Google is God.

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  • (Score: 1) by daver!west!fmc on Thursday June 15 2017, @06:56AM

    by daver!west!fmc (1391) on Thursday June 15 2017, @06:56AM (#525893)

    Nah, I think it'll be differently evil....

    A few years ago a friend who then worked for Google on Android showed me a new Android tablet. I looked at it a bit, said, "it's nice, where's the memory card slot?" His answer was that they wanted to leave some functionality for other manufacturers to build into their devices.

    Now, how's that work when you're hiring the star talent to design chips?