Google hires Apple chip bloke
 

Should Qualcomm be worried?

Google has head hunted Apple’s chip man to come up with future versions of the Google's Pixel phone.

Manu Gulati, an Apple micro-architect who worked on the company's chip development for nearly eight years. Apple began using its own chips in 2010, starting with the introduction of the iPad in 2010, which was powered by the company's A4 chip.

Google relied on a chip designed and manufactured by Qualcomm when it introduced its first Pixel phones.

However, this same chip is being used by a number of other Android phone manufacturers, including HTC, LG, Lenovo and Asus which means the phones all offer similar performance specs. This makes it hard for companies to differentiate their devices from one another.

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