Bill Athas Apple Died: Tim Millet appointed as Apple Watch Blood Glucose New Team Lead

Tim Millet, vice president of platform architecture at Apple, has been given the responsibility of leading the team that is developing blood glucose monitoring capabilities for the Apple Watch following the recent internal reorganization at the company. Bloomberg reports that Millet has taken over leadership of the Exploratory Design Group, often known as XDG, which has been working for years to create noninvasive methods of detecting blood glucose. Bill Athas, who had worked for Apple for many years, served as the team’s leader in the past, however he passed away suddenly in late 2022. Millet has been working at Apple for close to twenty years, and he answers to Johny Srouji, who is the company’s chief of chips. According to Bloomberg, Millet has led multiple teams that work on the processors, which has played a significant part in the company’s switch to using Apple technology.

Tim Millet, a veteran of Apple with 19 years of service, was instrumental in the company’s move away from Intel CPUs and toward its own M1 and M2 designs. Because of his skill, the process of miniaturizing and integrating the glucose-tracking technology into the Apple Watch could go much more quickly.

Because it requires complex sensors and chips, Apple’s work on blood glucose monitoring is being supervised by the semiconductor team rather than a health team. This is due to the fact that the health team is focused on other health-related issues. Apple is investigating a noninvasive monitoring method that includes firing a laser below the skin to measure the amount of glucose that is present in the blood. Diabetics would be able to test their blood glucose levels without having to prick their skin, and noninvasive blood glucose monitoring would most likely be able to detect pre-diabetes as well as other blood glucose concerns.

In the earlier part of this year, Apple achieved a significant “proof-of-concept” stage with hardware that is almost the same size as an iPhone. However, the company still has to reduce the size of the components so that they can be accommodated within an Apple Watch. There is no indication that Apple is planning to include a blood glucose monitoring capability in the Apple Watch any time soon. Roundup of Related Items: Watch Series 9 from Apple.