Google hires Intel employee, as vice president of its custom chip division

On March 23, Google declared the hiring of Uri Frank, a senior Intel employee, as the vice president of its custom chip division.

Frank’s job will be to continue to use past experience to work with customers and partners to build new custom chip architectures. He wrote in a LinkedIn post that he hopes to cultivate a team in Israel and accelerate Google Cloud’s innovation in computing infrastructure.

Frank’s information on LinkedIn displays that he had worked at Intel for more than 20 years. While working at Intel, he was promoted all the way from the position of engineer to the position of corporate vice president of the design engineering department.

Google intends to recruit several hundred employees for its new hardware-centric development center in Israel, which will be led by Frank. It is reported that Google is a Foxconn customer.

In the history of Google’s entry into the hardware field, Foxconn has contributed a lot. At the end of 2013, Google purchased head-mounted display-related patents from Foxconn.

These patents formed the basis of the current Google DayDream VR head-mounted display. In April 2014, Google purchased a large number of communications technology patents from Foxconn.

Earlier this month, the media said that Foxconn used Google’s device learning program as a basis to produce an automatic detection system for the production line, which greatly reduced the defect rate of smartphone parts and significantly reduced the inspection time.

As per the previous news, Foxconn planned to assemble key components for Google servers at the Wisconsin factory. Foxconn had reached an agreement with Google and was establishing an assembly line to produce circuit boards, and planned to start mass production in the first quarter of next year.

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