Thursday, April 26th 2018
Ryzen Architect Jim Keller 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 bête 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."
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PC Perspective
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."
81 Comments on Ryzen Architect Jim Keller Joins Intel
I wouldn't be so sure Keller is working on x86. Intel has a lot of over-the-horizon projects in the works and Intel's current implemention of x86 is still competitive. It's the fabrication side of Intel that's falling apart in regards to x86 delievery and that's not Keller's expertise.
All I've said is that a rumor that I didn't pay much attention to, just got a shot of credibility. You don't have to point out I don't the whole story, because I already know I don't.
The rumor was Raja wanted to move the unit to Intel. That obviously didn't happen (beyond that rumor we don't even knkow if that was indeed the intention), but Raja's at Intel and now so is Chris Hook. That's all there is to it.