Apple nabs former TI engineers for chip push, report says

From CNET News.com: Reports suggest that Apple is in the hunt for former Texas Instruments engineers in Israel, in a bid to expand its operations in the country.

According to sources speaking to The Next Web, Apple has been hiring "dozens" of engineers after the chipmaker cut 250 jobs from one of its Israeli operations center.

Apple is ramping up its efforts to build research and development centers in Herzliya and Haifa, the report said.

TI this month announced a round of redundancies, in the region of 1,700 employees worldwide, as it aims to pull out of the consumer market while focusing on embedded systems. The company aims to focus on selling its chip technology into embedded markets and the automotive sector.

According to the report, the engineers were working on radio chips, such as those supporting Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology, used in a number smartphones and tablets. But TI began to wind down its OMAP operations -- or Open Multimedia Applications Platform, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) used in such products as the Kindle Fire -- while shifting its research and developments efforts back to the U.S.

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