A chip expert who worked at Apple for nine years has left the company to join a competitor's team.
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It's about Kim Woo-Pyong.He has been with Apple since 2014, and before that he was an employee of Texas Instruments and Qualcomm. It is not clear exactly what duties Kim performed. It is only reported that he was an expert on semiconductors.
At Samsung, Kim will be the director of the new centersolutions for packaging technologies. Over the past couple of years, the South Korean company has expanded its presence in the semiconductor market amid increased competition from TSMC, Apple and others. Last month, Samsung announced the start of production of 3nm chips.