Veteran Apple engineering exec Dan Riccio ‘nearing retirement’

In January 2021, Apple reshuffled its {hardware} engineering staff by Dan Riccio shifting from Senior Vice President of {Hardware} Engineering to a “new position specializing in a brand new undertaking.” John Ternus then took the reins of the {hardware} engineering staff and joined Apple’s govt staff.

Bloomberg now reviews that Riccio “has advised colleagues he’s nearing retirement after greater than 25 years on the firm.”

When Apple introduced the lineup modifications in January 2021, it didn’t specify what “new undertaking” Riccio was going to supervise. Studies on the time, nevertheless, instructed that the mysterious undertaking was Apple’s first AR/VR headset – which we now know as Imaginative and prescient Professional. Now that the primary Imaginative and prescient Professional is out into the world, Riccio is able to name it quits.

In in the present day’s version of his Energy On publication, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Riccio is thought inside Apple as a “hard-driving and controversial boss.” He joined the corporate in 1998 and led groups throughout a number of iPhone, iPad, and Mac launches, along with Imaginative and prescient Professional and the Apple Silicon transition.

As Gurman explains, nevertheless, there have been some pace bumps alongside the way in which:

Riccio is called a hard-driving and controversial boss inside Apple, and issues haven’t at all times gone easily. There was the corporate’s shaky entry into sensible audio system, a failed TV set undertaking and, after all, the automobile. There additionally was a interval wherein Apple tried to wind down the Mac in favor of the iPad. That clearly didn’t work, however the 2020 shift from Intel Corp. to Apple’s homegrown chips — an effort Riccio helped lead — turned issues round. In spite of everything that, getting the Imaginative and prescient Professional out was a capstone second. 

There’s no timeline on when Riccio will formally announce his retirement, however Bloomberg makes it clear it’s coming quickly. One query that continues to be is who takes over Riccio’s position of overseeing the Imaginative and prescient Professional group, which is led on a day-to-day foundation by VP Mike Rockwell.

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