The team will be run by Rick Osterloh, who was previously the SVP of devices and services, overseeing all of Google’s hardware efforts. Hiroshi Lockheimer, the longtime head of Android ...

Google has laid off hundreds of employees from its Android and Pixel teams ... Google's original decision to merge the organization's OS and hardware teams was a key trigger for these layoffs.

In a blog post from Sundar Pichai this week, the Google CEO announced the merger of software teams that work on Android, Chrome, and Chrome OS with hardware teams that are responsible for the ...

The voluntary severance program arrives just under a year after Google merged the Android, Pixel hardware, and Chrome teams into a single “Platform and Devices” division, overseen by Osterloh.

Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel hardware and Android software were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program” for employees working in the ...

The move follows last year’s restructuring, which merged the Pixel hardware and Android ... both tie back to Google’s AI ambitions. Merging Android and Pixel teams under one roof was designed ...

Burke has been on the Android team for 14 years. Burke’s departure follows Google’s recent move to combine its Android and hardware teams into a new “Platforms and Devices” team run by ...

Nest, which has previously operated as an Alphabet subsidiary, will now be merged ... announcement on Google’s blog today, stating that moving the Nest team into Google’s hardware group ...

it will merge with the Google hardware team. The current Nest CEO, Marwan Fawaz, will report to Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh. Nest has struggled since it was purchased by Google/Alphabet in 2014.

To truly drive computing forward, we need to do it at the intersection of hardware ... the teams together in a new PA called Platforms & Devices. The Alphabet/Google CEO says this merger will ...