The Wall Street Journal today took a look at Apple's in-house Silicon plans. Two new recent hires, Raja Koduri and Bob Drebin were both high ranking defectors from struggling AMD/ATI. Both were also focused in the graphics arenas. But there are many, many more.
The WSJ sites Linkedin Job profiles and Apple Jobs and Indeed job searches as evidence of Apple's ramping up of talent in the chip making game. Some have partial descriptions like "testing the functional correctness of Apple developed silicon."
This goes against an industry trend of outsourcing more and more components and relyi
