Apple appoints new hardware engineering head, rejigs top team

San Francisco, Jan 26 : In a biggest reshuffle in nearly a decade, Apple on Tuesday elevated John Ternus as SVP of hardware engineering as current hardware head Dan Riccio is transitioning to a new role at the company.
Ternus will run the company’s hardware efforts, in the same way that Craig Federighi — Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering — runs the development of iOS and macOS.
“Ternus’ deep expertise and wide breadth of experience make him a bold and visionary leader of our Hardware Engineering teams. I want to congratulate them both on these exciting new steps, and I’m looking forward to many more innovations they’ll help bring to the world,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
Ternus led the hardware team designing the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, in addition to working on Apple’s M1 chips.
Ternus joined Apple’s Product Design team in 2001 and has been a vice president of Hardware Engineering since 2013.
Riccio has been a leader in designing, developing, and engineering almost all of Apple’s products.