Samsung Hires Semiconductor Expert Away From Apple

Samsung has reportedly poached a semiconductor expert from Apple for its Packaging Solution Center, reports BusinessKorea.

The site says Apple veteran Kim Woo-pyeong has been appointed as director of the center. Woo-pyeong studied at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and worked for Texas Instruments and Qualcomm before joining Apple in 2014.

Experts say that the appointment is somewhat unusual considering a special relationship between Samsung and Apple, as the two cooperate and compete with each other at the same time. It is not easy to find similar cases except Samsung's recruitment in 2012 of Luc Julia, who oversaw Siri development at Apple for nearly a year.


According to the report, Samsung is working towards enhanced packaging technology as a way to surmount physical limitations in the development of ultra-micro fabrication processes.

More details in the full report linked below...

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