Apple to Focus Hardware Team on Five Areas Under Johny Srouji

Apple Inc.’s newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division will be organized across five key areas, its new leader told staffers on Monday.

Johny Srouji, who was named chief hardware officer at the same time John Ternus was promoted to chief executive officer, made the disclosure in an email to Apple employees. He said the team will be organized into hardware engineering, silicon, advanced technologies, platform architecture and project management divisions.

The change aims to simplify the structure of his organization, which will add thousands of employees and responsibility over the engineering of the iPhone, iPad, Apple ...