The AI Chip Race with Apple’s Former Chief Chip Architect | Power On with Mark Gurman
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[0:05] Welcome to Power On.
[0:06] We talk about Apple and the consumer tech industry.
[0:09] I'm Mark Gurman.
[0:09] And today
[0:10] we have a very interesting conversation and a very special guest, Gerard Williams III.
[0:15] Joining us to talk about the AI data center boom,
[0:18] what he's building at his new startup Nuvia core,
[0:20] what he built at Nuvia and Qualcomm, and of course, what he did
[0:24] at Apple as the chief architect on their CPU technology.
[0:29] He worked on chips starting from the A7, the first 64
[0:33] bit Apple processor, all the way up to the Apple M1 chip.
[0:37] We get into his time there, we get into his thoughts on John Ternus
[0:40] and Johny Srouji, and what it was like when he first came up with the idea.
[0:44] Almost two decades ago to build,
[0:47] server side CPU at Apple.
[0:50] And stay tuned till the end.
[0:51] We have another round of Apple trivia.
[0:55] So Gerard Williams III.
[0:57] So glad to have you here.
[0:59] Just to give some background to to those listening.
[1:02] Gerard has had an amazing career, and there's
[1:05] probably no one better to talk to right now.
[1:08] About the AI data center boom,
[1:10] the silicon industry and all of that coming together.
[1:14] Gerard, you know, as you may be interested, if you're listening
[1:17] to this podcast, he worked at Apple for a long time.
[1:20] Most recently, he was a senior director, in charge of CPU work, platform work.
[1:26] He worked all the way up to the M1 chip.
[1:28] He worked on the A7 chip and newer.
[1:31] And so he was there from not at the very beginning,
[1:34] but pretty close to the start of this Apple silicon journey.
[1:37] Apple making its own chips
[1:38] for the iPad, for