Dan Riccio, among Apple’s most popular executives for more than twenty years, will retire from the business this month, according to a report in Bloomberg that points out individuals with understanding of the relocation.

Apparently, Riccio has actually stated he has actually been preparing his retirement for the previous 5 years, and his last day will be Friday, October 11.

Riccio started operating at Apple in 1998, and by 2012, he had actually ended up being the chief of hardware engineering. Because function, he managed a number of significant hardware advancements for Apple, consisting of AirPods, the advancement of the contemporary iPhone, the iPad Pro, and more.

He held the title of senior vice president of hardware engineering throughout that time, then moved into a brand-new function within the business in January of 2021. The general public in the beginning just understood that he was dealing with a “new project” at that time, however soon it ended up being clear the task in concern was what ended up being the Vision Pro, Apple’s augmented-reality headset that released this February.

The group that produced the Vision Pro is called the Vision Products Group within the business; that’s the 2,000-engineer-strong group Riccio has actually managed because 2021. He was likewise associated with establishing Project Titan, Apple’s clever cars and truck effort that was ultimately deserted.