In addition, Mike Filippo, a senior engineer who has worked in Apple for nearly three years, has joined Microsoft as the chief architect, responsible for the development of Azure server chips.
another wave of executive job-hopping has started in the semiconductor field.
Let's take a look at Jeff Wilcox, Apple's architecture director who has been poached. This time, Intel hired the chief designer of its M1 chip products from Apple. He joined Apple in 213 and has worked in Apple for 9 years.
during the nine years that Jeff Wilcox worked, he was responsible for the development of the T2 security chip and M1 series processors of Apple. Under his leadership, Apple computer chips have been upgraded and innovated for generations. In short, Jeff Wilcox is an Apple chip, and even a technical pillar behind Apple computers.
But let's take a closer look at Jeff Wilcox's resume. Jeff Wilcox first worked at Intel, worked as a leading architect of PC chipset for three years, and then was poached by Apple. Therefore, many people regard Jeff Wilcox's job-hopping as a kind of "regression".
In fact, Rohit Verma, AMD's chief independent GPU architect who was also poached by Intel, once worked at Intel, and this time he is also a "second palace". From 1999 to 213, he served as the chief SoC architect at Intel for 14 years.
Since joining AMD in 213, during his eight-year career, he has been engaged in projects covering discrete graphics cards for desktops and laptops, as well as SoC architecture design involving CPU, GPU, architecture, power management and security.
interestingly, Verma's career overlap with Pat Gelsinger, the current CEO of Intel, is quite high. In 1979, at the age of 18, Gelsinger joined Intel as a quality control technician. When Verma started his career at Intel in 1999, Gelsinger was the general manager of Intel's Desktop Products Division and became Intel's first CTO in 21.
It can be seen that in the recent resignation of senior executives, the senior executives who have been pocketed by Intel are inextricably linked with Intel.
When Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as the new CEO in 221, Intel began an aggressive period, frequently poaching talents from other companies, especially the "old team" that had worked with him.
On Linkedin, Rohit Verma also sent a message saying that she was excited to return to Intel.
in addition to "returning" to one's home, the opportunities released by changes in the company's future planning have also become an important reason for attracting senior executives.
Microsoft is accelerating the deployment of cloud computing servers and Surface devices to develop customized chips, and released the recruitment information of SoC architecture director in its recruitment position.
Mike Filippo, who has worked in Apple for nearly three years, joined Microsoft as the chief architect, responsible for the development of Azure server chips.
We looked through Mike Filippo's resume. Before joining Apple, he worked as chief CPU architect, chief system architect and ARM Fellow in ARM, responsible for developing Cortex-A76, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A57 and the upcoming 7nm+ and 5nm chips. He also worked in AMD and Intel for 8 and 5 years respectively.
in fact, apart from the company executives, the semiconductor field has set off a wave of poaching because of the layout of the meta-universe.
Microsoft's AR team also lost more than 1 employees in the past year. About 7 of them belonged to the HoloLens team, and 4 of them jumped to Meta, including Charlie Han, the former director of HoloLens user feedback, and Josh Miller, a former member of the HoloLens demonstration team.
Apple is also a key area of poaching, losing M1 processor R&D executives, self-driving car team executives, and even poaching more than 1 former Apple employees by Meta in 221.
In order to cope with this situation and avoid being robbed of more talents by competitors such as Meta, Apple provided some engineers and staff in the software department with stock benefits. The amount of this extra income ranges from 5, to 18, US dollars (about 32, yuan to 1.14 million yuan), and they will be distributed in the form of restricted shares for a limited period of four years. Apple hopes to reduce the job-hopping of senior employees.
At Google, how to retain employees has become the topic of discussion at CEO sundar pichai's weekly executive meeting. At the same time, Google also began to provide employees with additional stock incentives to avoid being poached.
but sometimes the ability to spend money is not everything, at least not for executives. Before announcing her resignation, Dr. Venkata Renduchintala, former head of Intel hardware and chief engineer, had a total annual salary of about $26.88 million, which was one of the highest paid executives in Intel.
in Intel's official announcement, because the TSCG team led by Renduchintala will be split into five groups, and the group leaders will report directly to the CEO, these changes have caused Renduchintala to leave.
Previously, Google Vice President Surojit left Coinbase, the largest virtual currency trading company, and became the company's chief product officer. At present, Coinbase is listed, and the equity value of Surojit in the company has exceeded 6 million US dollars (about 3.8 billion yuan).
for the semiconductor industry, it is not a bad thing for executives to change jobs many times.
After leaving Fairchild, Noyce founded Intel with Gordon Moore and process development expert andy grove. Jerry Sanders, director of Fairchild's sales department, founded AMD Semiconductor with several employees. Kleiner founded KPCB venture capital; Valentine founded the National Semiconductor Company, and later founded Sequoia Capital.
In the semiconductor wave around 197, it can be said that most semiconductor companies originated from Fairchild Semiconductor Company. This group of semiconductor companies can be said to have laid the scientific and technological foundation of Silicon Valley.
Faced with the departure of the "Eight Traitors", Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, made an image metaphor: "Fairchild Semiconductor Company is like a mature dandelion. When you blow it, the seeds of this entrepreneurial spirit will fly everywhere with the wind."
Jim Keller, the father of AMD Zen architecture, has also worked as an executive in AMD, Intel and Tesla, and has repeatedly jumped ship to seek new challenges.
iron-clad executives are running water factories. People are the core of the whole industry. The semiconductor industry in China is driven by policies and capital, and now it is a good time. The treatment of semiconductor talents has generally improved significantly, which is more advantageous for attracting talents.
there is a noteworthy news in the wave of executives' job-hopping. Yang Chaoyuan, a former NVIDIA executive, formally joined Bijie Technology, a domestic GPU manufacturer, as vice president and special assistant to the chairman.
Yang Chaoyuan worked in NVIDIA and TSMC. During his tenure in NVIDIA, he was responsible for architecture design, R&D, film distribution and team management. He set up NVIDIA's first overseas R&D center outside the US headquarters in Shanghai and served as the general manager of NVIDIA Shanghai.
It is undoubtedly an excellent trend for giant executives to join domestic manufacturers, which means that the attractiveness of domestic semiconductor manufacturers in China is increasing. Nowadays, China Semiconductor is in the process of transition from "takenism" to real self-innovation, which requires the persistence of R&D investment and the attention to personnel training.
under the firm goal of semiconductor development, we expect more and more giant executives to join domestic manufacturers.