Nikhil Murthy is a seasoned CPU Design Verification Engineer at Apple, with extensive experience in the semiconductor industry. Nikhil's career includes significant roles such as Senior Engineer at Qualcomm, focusing on CPU front-end Design Verification, and Senior Hardware Engineer at Oracle, where Nikhil specialized in verification and test plans for error detection and correction logic in the SPARC core. Nikhil's early career included roles as a Hardware Engineer at Oracle, where Nikhil was involved in pre-silicon design verification, and internships at Silicon Laboratories, Apple, and IBM, contributing to PCB design, logic board improvements, and Ethernet adapter testing. Nikhil holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Computer Architecture and Digital Signal Processing.