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Official Apple photo from 2017.
Johny Srouji (Hebrew: ג'וני סרוג'י, Arabic: جوني سروجي, born 1964) is the Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies at Apple Inc.
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Early life and education
Srouji was born in Haifa, Israel to a family of Lebanese descent. Srouji earned a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1990, respectively.[1] He speaks Arabic, English, French, and Hebrew.[2]
Career
Srouji worked as a researcher and engineer at IBM R&D Labs in Israel from January 1990 to December 1992. He joined Intel at their Israel Design Center in January 1993 and where he became a senior manager. Srouji returned to IBM in January 2005 as a CPU design manager for their POWER7 series.[1]
Apple Computer
Meet the Mastermind Behind Apple's Processor Chip
In March 2008, Srouji was recruited by Bob Mansfield to join Apple, where he led the development of the Apple A4, the first system-on-a-chip (SOC) to be designed at the company. The Apple A7 surprised the industry by moving Apple's mobile devices to 64-bit computing.[2][3] After successfully rushing the Apple A9X to market for the iPad Pro in 2015, Srouji was promoted to Senior Vice President, reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook and leading development of Apple processors.[2]
In 2019, Intel considered Srouji as a candidate to be its next CEO.[4] However, Srouji had reportedly informed his staff at Apple that he had no plans to leave the company.[5]
Quotes
- “Hard is good. Easy is a waste of time.”
- “The chip architects at Apple are artists, the engineers are wizards.”
- “My rule of thumb is if it’s not gated by physics, that means it’s hard but doable.”
- “The only way for Apple to really differentiate and deliver something truly unique and truly great, you have to own your own silicon.”[2]
Gallery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnny from Haifa took Apple by storm. by Sagi Cohen, Ynet News.2014-08-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Most Important Apple Executive You’ve Never Heard Of by Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Gwen Ackerman at Bloomberg (2016-02-18)
- ↑ Investor Relations - Leadership & Governance. Apple Inc.. Retrieved on 2016-07-30.
- ↑ Ina Fried (2019-01-15). Apple exec on Intel's CEO candidate list (en). Retrieved on 2019-09-11.
- ↑ Apple's Johny Srouji supposedly not considering Intel CEO position, AppleInsider. 2019-01-25.
See also
External links
- Johny Srouji at Apple
- Johny Srouji at Bloomberg
- Johny Srouji at LinkedIn
- Johny Srouji at Wikipedia
Articles
- Silicon is “Unforgiving,” Says Apple’s Chip Chief Johny Srouji by Meir Orbach at CTech (2017-11-14)
