Johny Srouji

Johny Srouji (* 1964 in Haifa ) is an Israeli computer engineer. He led the development of the system on a chip Apple A4 with Apple , which in the iPad was used (2010).

Srouji is one of the Arab Christians . His father had a small mold factory. Srouji completed his studies at Technion with a master’s degree and was then an engineer at the IBM research center in Haifa, where he dealt with distributed systems. In 1993 he switched to Intel , where he dealt with test procedures for chips, which was already the subject of his master's thesis. In 1999 he moved to the development center in Austin under Uri C. Weiser . He has been with Apple since 2008 and is responsible for hardware development, in particular for microprocessors and chip components from the A4. In future, they wanted to control the chip development in the iPads from scratch. The then head of hardware development, Bob Mansfield , recruited Srouji, who built up a development team, among other things by buying up the start-up PA Semi 2008, which had experience with chips with low power consumption. The successor architectures of the A4 were also developed under Srouji's direction, such as the A7 (2013) with transition to 64-bit architecture.

In December 2015, he was promoted to senior vice president of hardware technologies at Apple. At the same time, he received stock options worth around $ 10 million.

Web links

• Biography at Apple
• Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, Gwen Ackerman: The most important Apple executive you've never heard of, Bloomberg Businessweek, February 18, 2016