These Apple chip experts set up their own company – Qualcomm just bought it
Chris Burns - Jan 13, 2021, 12:18pm CST
Three star chip designers from Apple and Google formed a company called NUVIA in late 2019. They aimed to create silicon processing chips that’d eventually take on the likes of Intel and AMD, and raised a whole bunch of money in Series A and B funding and became a force to be reckoned with in a relatively short amount of time. Today, Qualcomm announced that they’ll be acquiring NUVIA for $1.4 billion USD.
Co-founders of NUVIA include Gerard Williams III (CEO), Manu Gulati (SVP of Silicon Engineering), and John Bruno (SVP of System Engineering). Gerared Willams III spent 10 years at ARM then moved on to Apple, where he was Senior Director and Chief CPU Architect for nearly another decade.