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I know the article mentions operational stuff like moving production to a different country and such, but I can’t help but wonder if it has anything to do with all the engineers that moved on from Apple to found startups and other companies that wanted a piece of the magic that Apple pulled with the M series chips..

Curious if any HNers in the know could spill such info with a throwaway

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I think the brain drain story was way overblown. People are always coming and going on any team. Given how long hardware takes to design and plan, covid lockdowns are more likely to have impacted processors that should be coming out now.

Maybe it's a gross oversimplification but I thought that while the next iterations of the A and smaller M SoCs were designed in California, the bigger M chips are developed in Israel where the team is much younger.

I'm pretty sure its Austin Texas https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/2012/09/01/apple-buys-au...

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