Apple’s new Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji has launched a second hardware reorganization in about a month, tightening product design, reliability, and engineering ownership across hardware and Apple Watch-related sensor work. The shakeup follows Tim Cook’
Apple’s hardware teams are getting pulled into a faster orbit.
Johny Srouji, recently named Chief Hardware Officer, is looking to optimize how the company manages its hardware work with a second reorganization in roughly a month. The expectation inside Apple is that the changes will quell irritation while speeding up development.
Srouji’s new role was announced together with news that Tim Cook is to be replaced by John Ternus. Within days, Srouji began reshuffling responsibilities, a move described as practical delegation of his previous duties. Now, the adjustments have gone further, with a specific focus on how Apple runs its main product design.
Kate Bergeron, who had been responsible for product design, has had that responsibility redirected. The task will now pass to two of her deputies. Bergeron had reportedly been unhappy with how Ternus reorganized Apple’s teams. but she is now being promoted to oversee all product reliability. She is replacing Tom Marieb, who in turn has succeeded John Ternus as head of hardware engineering.
Bergeron will keep another major responsibility as well: overseeing the development of the materials Apple uses. For Apple, this is the kind of pairing that keeps design, reliability, and materials connected—without putting product design under a single manager’s control.
Srouji’s product-design reorganization is being framed as his most significant change so far. It is said to be aimed at ensuring Apple Silicon teams and individual product teams are more integrated than before.
The shakeup doesn’t stop at product design. Matt Costello, previously in home and audio, is moving to a new Ecosystems Platforms and Partnerships Team. Costello will now report to Srouji instead of Ternus. Kevin Lynch, coming from Apple’s robotics team, will also report to Srouji.
Several existing leaders are seeing their areas widen. Silicon engineering group head Sribalan Santhanam is adding more low-level chip functions. Apple modem leader Zongjian Chen is set to take on battery and camera engineering teams, along with sensor software development.
That sensor software work includes Chen taking over Apple’s efforts to add noninvasive blood-sugar detection to the Apple Watch.
Taken together, the moves suggest an effort to realign hardware ownership as the leadership transition approaches. The timing matters: these reorganizations are happening months ahead of Tim Cook leaving the CEO role, which implies Ternus is already running Apple in all but name.
Bergeron’s rise to product reliability oversight. Costello and Lynch’s reporting shifts. and Chen’s expansion into battery. camera. sensor software. and Apple Watch blood-sugar detection all point in the same direction—clearer chains of command. tighter integration across teams. and less time spent waiting for responsibilities to settle.
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