Apple has experienced a series of executive departures, with key figures in the self-developed chip strategy possibly becoming the next to leave.

For a long time, Apple has been a model of stability in Silicon Valley, but now it is suddenly experiencing the largest personnel shakeup in decades, with senior executives and key engineers resigning one after another. Just in the past week, the heads of Apple's artificial intelligence and interface design departments have left their positions. The company then announced that the general counsel and head of government affairs will also be resigning. These four executives all report directly to CEO Tim Cook, signaling an unusually large turnover in Apple's top management. More changes may be on the horizon. According to sources, Johny Srouji, the senior vice president of Hardware Technologies and one of Apple's most respected executives, recently told Cook that he is seriously considering resigning soon. The core figure leading Apple's in-house chip project has informed colleagues that if he were to leave, he would move to another company. Meanwhile, talent in the field of artificial intelligence is flooding to competitors such as Meta Platforms Inc., OpenAI, and numerous startups, poaching engineers from Apple. This may hinder Apple's progress in catching up in the field of artificial intelligence, an area where the company has long struggled to make breakthroughs.