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Apple’s chief hardware engineer Dan Riccio will step down to oversee a new project, the iPhone maker said on Monday, providing few details about the executive’s latest longtime job.
Riccio will report to CEO Tim Cook, Apple said in a statement. He will be replaced by company veteran John Ternus, who will join the executive team as senior vice president of hardware engineering.
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Riccio, who joined Apple more than two decades ago as vice president of product design, was named vice president of iPad hardware engineering in 2010 and leads the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams.
The company has been focusing on newer projects and advancing autonomous car technology, with the goal of producing a passenger car by 2024 that could include its own advanced battery technology, Reuters reported last month.
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The iPhone maker’s automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have run unevenly since 2014, when it began designing its own vehicle from scratch. At one point, Apple withdrew the effort to focus on software and reevaluated its goals. Doug Field, an Apple veteran who had worked at Tesla, returned to oversee the project in 2018 and laid off 190 people from the team in 2019.
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