Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it remained cool without Gerard Williams III, the man who in recent years coordinated many of the efforts of the American company to create the processors used in iDevices. Starting with the A7 chip, for the iPhone, and up to the A12X, for the iPhone, the former director of the Apple company contributed significantly to the launch of these very important components.
Apple hired him in 2010 from ARM, where he gathered 12 years of experience, and at the Cupertino company he used it to contribute to the creation of the powerful processors it is today. For those at Apple, the departure of this engineer will leave a very big void in the company, and this is because he took care of extremely important projects.
Gerard Williams III is not the first important engineer to leave Apple in recent years, and of course this is a very big problem for the American company at the moment. There are also many talented engineers within the Apple company, but every time an experienced leader leaves, there is a void that can hardly be filled.
In recent years, Williams' responsibilities had grown beyond leading the design of the custom CPU cores for Apple's chips to overseeing the layout of the various parts of the system-on-a-chip, or SoC, inside the company's mobile devices. It's standard for chip designers to pack more and more features — like the CPU brains of the device, GPU graphics and memory — onto the same physical package to improve battery life and reduce the size of the chips.
