VP Hardware Engineering, Apple
Search every verified John Ternus interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering, delivered the keynote address at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 20, 2024. Ternus, a 1997 graduate of Penn Engineering, spoke about his career and offered advice to graduates. He stated that he was initially unsure he belonged at Apple, but said he was grateful he was not afraid to ask for help. He advised graduates to “always assume you’re as smart as anyone else in the room, but never assume that you know as much as they do,” describing this as a way to find confidence while maintaining humility. During the address, Ternus also discussed Apple’s environmental efforts, saying the company is “pretty good at making products that our customers love” and that employees “work hard to lead with our values.” He noted that Apple is carbon neutral for its own operations and is working toward a goal set by CEO Tim Cook to become carbon neutral across its entire supply chain by 2030.
“Always assume you're as smart as anyone else in the room, but never assume that you know as much as they do. With this mindset, you'll find the confidence you need to push forward, but more importantly, the humility to ask questions and learn.”
“At Apple, we're pretty good at making products that our customers love, but we're also an organization made up of people who work hard to lead with our values in everything that we do. And one of the key values I see shared across everyone I work with is a deep desire to do what we can to protect the environment. And t...”
“The care that you put into your work, it really matters. My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. Now, these screws were made of stainless steel and the head of every scre...”
“Always assume you're as smart as anyone else in the room, but never assume that you know as much as they do. With this mindset, you'll find the confidence you need to push forward, but more importantly, the humility to ask questions and learn. When I first got to Apple, it was my second job out of college. And the firs...”
“Build what interests you. Build what excites you. But above all else, build it in a way that aligns with your values. At Apple, we're pretty good at making products that our customers love. But we're also an organization made up of people who work hard to lead with our values in everything that we do. And one of the ke...”
“We were 3% market share, struggling to stay in business, Windows PCs dominated. And by the way, he had to explain to us Apple employees why did we need to be here? Why did we need to exist? And the reality was that the PC industry was not exactly innovative in those days. Right? It was all a matter of how do you cut a...”
“We never want to ship junk, right? We want to ship great products that have that Apple experience, have that Apple quality. And to do that with the Neo required building something completely new from the ground up, right? Leveraging both the technologies we've been developing like Apple silicon, but also kind of the ex...”
“They're plastic, they're little you can flex them, they're so cheap because what have they done? They just tried to like again, cut a nickel, cut a quarter, cut a dollar out of everything to try to make it cheaper and as a result, they made it cheap, right? Which is very different than making it a lower price and a hig...”
“I think we're still very much in the early innings of spatial computing. We are super excited about it. I mean the the Vision Pro is an extraordinary product. As John said it's like we reached into the future and and and pulled it into the present. And it's continuing to like people are continuing to find exciting new...”
“This is not a sprint. This is a marathon, right? We're going to be doing stuff with intelligence for decades not for months or years. And I think you know we we never think about shipping a technology. We always think about how can we leverage technology to ship amazing products and features and experiences for our use...”
“The technology that enabled it, first and foremost, is Apple silicon — we have our A19 processor, plus C1X, an Apple‑designed cellular modem, and N1, our Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth chip. By making incredibly efficient silicon in‑house, the system takes less power, which is great for battery life and enables a thin premium iPh...”
“The SIM is just very painful to me because it's a large piece of plastic that takes up a massive amount of space in the product, so as we were designing this phone there was just no way we could afford that wasted space — this has to be eSIM, completely. We've been working with carriers throughout the world to optimize...”
“This was a moment for us to really rethink the iPhone lineup. That allowed us to push the Pro phones to be even more pro.”
“All of those things combined actually resulted in a phone that's more durable than any previous iPhone, which is pretty amazing given how thin it is.”
“If you want more performance, you've got to have great thermals. Our custom alloy for aluminum has 20 times the thermal conductivity of the titanium we're using.”
From Penn Engineering student to Apple executive. John Ternus (ENG'97), now CEO of Apple, returned to campus in 2024 to deliver the keynote address at Penn Engineering's Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony.
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