Three former iPhone chip executives from Apple Inc have founded a data center chip start-up to compete with current industry leaders Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
Founded by Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno in early 2019, NUVIA Inc is currently developing a processor codenamed Phoenix.
Williams left Apple this spring after more than nine years as chief architect of all of the company's CPUs and systems-on-a-chip, leading the development of all of Apple's proprietary SoCs since the A7. Gulati spent eight years at Apple Mobile Systems on a Chip, and Bruno spent five years at Apple's Platform Architecture division. Gulati and Bruno also worked at Google before moving to NUVIA.
On Friday, the company said it had raised $53 million in funding from Dell Technologies Capital and several other Silicon Valley firms, and plans to increase its headcount from 60 to 100 by the end of this year.
Source: 3dnews.ru