[News] Ryzen Architect Jim Keller Joins Intel

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/243673/r...er-joins-intel

Jim Keller, the VLSI guru who led the team behind AMD's spectacular comeback in the x86 processor market with "Zen," has reportedly quit his job at Tesla to join AMD's b?te noire, Intel. Following his work on "Zen," Keller had joined Tesla to work on self-driving car hardware. Keller joins Raja Koduri at Intel, the other big former-AMD name, who led Radeon Technologies Group (RTG).

PC Perspective comments that big names like Keller and Koduri joining Intel could provide clues as to Intel's current state and the direction it's heading in. The company appears to be in a state of shake-up from a decade of complacency and lethargy in its core business. Koduri could be putting together a team of people familiar to him for a new clean-slate project. The last time Intel had a clean slate was ten years ago, with "Nehalem."

[AliG]

Probably more likely that Intel poached him rather than Keller deciding randomly to go to his competitor lol

[madcho]

IPC decrease OMG :troll:

[AliG]

IPC decrease OMG :troll:

You talking about Terrance's Theorem of Bulldozing IPC (Down)? That's an old classic lol.

Probably should let that one eventually die, but I don't have anything better to put in my signature yet

[vario]

So its true, intel doesnt have anything other than core architecture in their drawers.
And Jim wants to do something new and exciting that probably will not work well with old software, go go Jim!

[madcho]

You talking about Terrance's Theorem of Bulldozing IPC (Down)? That's an old classic lol.

Probably should let that one eventually die, but I don't have anything better to put in my signature yet

Yeah, don't let it die, it was epic ... XD

[qcmadness]

Honestly I expect Jim to achieve big and revolutionary. So I expect him not to do traditional x86 architecture.

[iddqd]

Everyone expects him to work on the next CPU arch - especially since his equivalent that worked there previously, Francois Piednoel had quit recently. But maybe he's going to be working on GPUs instead?