Johny Srouji breaks silence: “I don’t plan on leaving Apple anytime soon”
Silicon chief reassures staff after days of speculation sparked by reports he was considering an exit.
“I love my team, and I love my job at Apple, and I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.”
With that sentence, delivered in a memo to employees, Johny Srouji moved to shut down a wave of speculation that he was preparing to exit Apple, ending days of mounting uncertainty around one of the company’s most strategically important executives.
Israeli Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies and the architect of its M-series silicon roadmap, told employees he felt compelled to address the rumors directly. “I know you’ve been reading all kind of rumors and speculations about my future at Apple, and I feel that you need to hear from me directly,” he wrote. He went on to praise his division’s work across “Displays, Cameras, Sensors, Silicon, Batteries, and a very wide set of technologies” that power every major Apple product. “Together we enable the best products in the world,” he said. “I love my team, and I love my job at Apple.”
The message marks a sharp reversal from the uncertainty that followed a Bloomberg report over the weekend saying Srouji had informed CEO Tim Cook that he was considering leaving the company and potentially joining another firm. According to that reporting, Cook, aware of the centrality of Srouji’s silicon organization to Apple’s competitive position, had sought to persuade him to stay, even raising the prospect of naming him the company’s future chief technology officer.
Srouji’s apparent contemplation of leaving came at a moment of rare turbulence in Apple’s senior ranks. The company has seen a series of high-profile departures: longtime operations chief Jeff Williams retired, AI head John Giannandrea is stepping down, and design lead Alan Dye departed for Meta. The company also announced that Lisa Jackson, who oversees environment and policy initiatives, will retire in January 2026. Jennifer Newstead, Meta’s chief legal officer, will replace Kate Adams as general counsel next year.
Srouji, who joined Apple in 2008 after senior roles at Intel and IBM, led the transition that replaced Intel processors across the Mac lineup with Apple-designed M-series chips. That shift dramatically improved performance, battery life, and vertical control of the product stack, while dealing a significant blow to Intel, the company where Srouji began his career. He was even considered for Intel’s CEO role in 2019.
