Microsoft has hired one of Apple's chip engineers to design its own custom server chips. Mike Filippo, who only worked at Apple for 2.9 years had worked at arm for a decade, at Intel for five years and AMD for 8 years. The report characterizing Filippo as a Key Apple engineer would seem a little hyped.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Microsoft is working on in-house processors for the servers running its cloud-computing services and Surface line of personal computers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The cloud computing heavy-weight relies heavily on Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc to supply chips for its Azure cloud computing services as well as Surface PCs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The move to hire Filippo implies that Microsoft is accelerating a push to create homegrown chips for its servers powering Azure cloud computing services, the report added.For more, read the full Reuters and\/or BNN Bloomberg reports. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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