Apple Insider reports that former AMD chip architect John Bruno, known for his contribution to the chip maker's Trinity Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), now lists himself as a "System Architect at Apple."

While Bruno's new position has not been officially announced, the profile change first spotted by SemiAccurate on Wednesday is thought to reflect Apple's ongoing efforts to design high-performance, energy-sipping mobile processors for use in its iDevice line of products.

Bruno's management of AMD's second-generation APU project, dubbed Trinity, is well known and it is speculated that he may take a similar role at Apple. As a side note, Apple was rumored to be using the original AMD Fusion APU in its Apple TV in 2010, but the final product ended leveraged the proprietary ARM-based A4 processor.

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