Johny Srouji

Johny Srouji was born in 1964 in Haifa

Srouji was born in Haifa to an Arab Christian family, the third of four children. His father Farid was a carpenter who made casting molds for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, French and English.

In high school he was introduced to computers by a teacher who also taught at the Technion. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the Technion in 1987 and a master's degree there in 1991.

He worked at IBM's labs in Haifa, then joined Intel Israel in 1992. In 1999 he moved to Intel in Austin, Texas, and returned to Intel Israel in 2003. In 2005 he went back to IBM to manage processor development for POWER7 chips.

He joined Apple in 2008 and led development of the A4, the first Apple-designed system-on-a-chip. He became senior vice president of hardware technologies in 2015 and helped set up Apple's R&D centers in Israel. In June 2020 he announced Apple's move from Intel processors to its own chips.

In 2019 Intel considered him as a candidate for chief executive. He received the Technion medal and, in 2025, the IMEC Innovation Award. In April 2026 he was named Apple's chief hardware officer.