Tang Yew Tan
Tang Tan is the Chief Hardware Officer at OpenAI, having assumed the role following OpenAI's acquisition of the hardware startup io in July 2025. He spent over 24 years at Apple, where he served as Vice President of Product Design for the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods product lines. He is named as a defendant in a trade-secret theft lawsuit filed by Apple against OpenAI in July 2026.
“Tang Tan, Apple's former VP of iPhone design, is OpenAI's chief hardware officer. He allegedly directed Apple job candidates interviewing at OpenAI to bring, quote, actual parts to interviews.”
Source→“OpenAI's $6.5 billion acquisition of io”
“Tang Tan (OpenAI's now hardware chief who is named in the lawsuit)”
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