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Mac tablet Such portable gizmos should benefit tremendously when Apple's in-house team engineers custom silicon that will enable unique hardware features in future gadgets. Source: MacFormat
Apple’s aggressive hunt for top graphics whizzes shifted into a higher gear. By all accounts, the company is in the process of hiring top Silicon Valley talents for in-house engineering team tasked with creating custom silicon for future gear. Extent of Apple’s efforts are much broader than originally thought, with far-reaching positive consequences for Apple’s competitiveness. If the plan works out, Apple will be creating their own chips packed with unique hardware features. As such, Apple’s chips won’t be available to rivals. In addition, custom silicon will reduce Apple’s reliance on common off-the-shelf components available to pretty much everyone in the industry.

Several days ago, Apple hired ATI’s Bob Drebin and will likely lure another ATI engineer named Raja Koduri. Both Drebin and Koduri are not exactly what you’d call ordinary Silicon Valley engineers. We also learned that Richard Teversham, Microsoft’s former senior director of business, insights and strategy for Xbox, is now moving to Apple. These are just few fresh examples of what appears to be broad exodus of top Silicon Valley engineers to Cupertino-based consumer electronics giant. The three mentioned hires clearly indicate that Cupertino-based gadget maker is dead serious about catapulting future gadgets far ahead rivals. In addition, the plan should make long-whispered future gizmos, like a Mac tablet, much easier and a lot cheaper to build.