Apple has lost many top executives recently. For example, in August it was announced that Luca Maestri, one of the company’s most important names, would leave as CFO. Now another high-level divorce has arrived.

According to information from Bloomberg, he has been an Apple manager for many years responsible for the hardware Then Ricciowill retire at the end of this month.

He previously led the iPad division and was also head of Vision Pro.

Riccio, 61, had worked at Apple for 26 years. In 2012 the company Senior vice president of hardware engineering He was appointed head of Apple’s hardware. In this process iPad section was on his mind. During his term of office From AirPods models to iPhones with larger screens He played a major role in the development of many hardware.

In 2021, it was announced that he left this position and moved to a completely new and secret project. It was later realized that this project was the first mixed reality glasses that Apple released earlier this year. Vision Pro It turned out to be so. Riccio was the most important name in the rise of Vision Pro. It was reported that after his retirement he will be replaced by John Ternus, one of the company’s CEO candidates.