In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
THE SO WHAT
Apple collapsing hardware engineering and hardware technologies into a five-pillar org is about shipping AI-native devices as a single system, not as components. If your product depends on Apple hardware quirks, expect faster, more coordinated silicon–sensor–ML changes and shorter deprecation cycles.
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