A chief designer of Samsung processors turns to Apple

The war between two of the companies more leading The tech spectrum continues beyond sales figures or cross-court lawsuits. We have recently learned that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has enlisted the services of one of the elite engineers se SamsungJim Megard, a technician who spent nearly ten years working on AMD processors and who had signed not too long ago with the South Koreans.

It is clear that Apple's trend right now is to acquire increasing control on the components with which you assemble your devices. Previously, the apple company used to outsource the services of design y manufacturing to other companies and, in this sense, Samsung has had part of the credit in the exceptional technical quality of many products of the Cupertino, iPhone and iPad ahead. However, Apple has already taken care of design the latest processor model A6 that runs inside the iPhone 5 with the aim of breaking the dependence on the Korean manufacturer with which it is involved in multiple judicial processes throughout different countries.

In fact, not long ago we published that Apple would have begun to consider the possibility of find a new manufacturer for several of its pieces. As for the screens, the signatures have sounded LG y Sharp already for the iPad Mini, which will not have a retina screen. As for the processor, as we say, those of Cupertino have been the services of a top designer, who had worked at AMD for a decade and was brought into the ARM development team by Samsung several months ago. Jim megard is an expert in the development of high performance and low consumption, and although the position that he will hold in his new "home" has not yet transcended, everything indicates that he will work on the architecture of the next iPad and iPhone.

It seems that relations between Apple and Samsung are intensifying to the point of hostilities such as robbing top-level engineers. It will be necessary to see how much is left of the Korean brand in the next devices of those of Cupertino, although we suspect that very little. On the other hand, it seems that Samsung will strengthen its links to Google thanks to the joint production of a Nexus 10, a machine that could jeopardize the iPad's reign in the tablet market.