Thursday, June 11th 2020
Jim Keller Resigns from Intel
Intel today announced that systems designer-extraordinaire Jim Keller has departed the company citing personal reasons. Whether or not this is a blow to Intel likely depends on how far Jim Keller brought their Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group throughout his two-year tenure at the company whilst serving as its Vice President. The semiconductor and chip architecture world isn't being driven by Mr. Keller himself, obviously; there are a number of architects and designers that bring the industry forward through their concerted efforts. However, it's hard to look past Jim Keller's pedigree when it comes to doing his job - if anything, AMD's Zen architecture is a testament to that, and has put Intel in the place we now see it in the CPU world.
To fill in the void, Intel has announced a reshuffling inside their Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group. Jim Keller will still be serving with Intel for the next six months as a consultant, thus easing the transition. Read the full press-release below.
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To fill in the void, Intel has announced a reshuffling inside their Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group. Jim Keller will still be serving with Intel for the next six months as a consultant, thus easing the transition. Read the full press-release below.
Today, Intel announced that Jim Keller has resigned effective June 11, 2020, due to personal reasons. Intel appreciates Mr. Keller's work over the past two years helping them continue advancing Intel's product leadership and they wish him and his family all the best for the future. Intel is pleased to announce, however, that Mr. Keller has agreed to serve as a consultant for six months to assist with the transition.
Intel has a vastly experienced team of technical leaders within its Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG) under the leadership of Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, group president of TSCG and chief engineering officer. As part of this transition, the following leadership changes will be made, effective immediately:
Sundari Mitra, the former CEO and founder of NetSpeed Systems and the current leader of Intel's Configurable Intellectual Property and Chassis Group, will lead a newly created IP Engineering Group focused on developing best-in-class IP.
Gene Scuteri, an accomplished engineering leader in the semiconductor industry, will head the Xeon and Networking Engineering Group.
Daaman Hejmadi will return to leading the Client Engineering Group focused on system-on-chip (SoC) execution and designing next-generation client, device and chipset products. Hejmadi has over two decades of experience leading teams delivering advanced SoCs both inside and outside of Intel.
Navid Shahriari, an experienced Intel leader, will continue to lead the Manufacturing and Product Engineering Group, which is focused on delivering comprehensive pre-production test suites and component debug capabilities to enable high-quality, high-volume manufacturing.
Intel congratulates Sundari, Gene, Daaman and Navid as we begin the next phase of our world-class engineering organization and look forward to executing on our exciting roadmap of products.
114 Comments on Jim Keller Resigns from Intel
Zen 3 started its development at least 3-5 years ago, JK resigns today. There is quite a difference in the time frame.
The Sony PlayStation 5 development and design shows just how primitive the x86 is, where they needed a ton of new specialised functions and dedicated hardware sets in order to replace the missing x86 instructions which they need and the extremely slow execution on the Zen 2 cores if they didn't include these new specialised hardware functions in order to accelerate the gaming experience as they wish.
Try running a Celeron with an HDD on Windows 10.
You will see how painfully slow it is.
A simple update takes dozens of minutes or hours.
My Ryzen system with an SSD took longer than an hour to update from 19 09 to 20 04. This is just unacceptable and I will take the very first opportunity to get rid of x86 system in favour of RISC ARM which is a mignitude of times FASTER.
You will never see, even the slowest Android smartphone to update in hours. :kookoo::rolleyes:
Your ignorance is showing again.
Depends on the handset & the size of the update.
I dunno, you seem to fluctuate from anywhere between Tucker Carlson on one end of the spectrum to John Oliver at the other. If you get what I mean :rolleyes:
Completely ignoring the global users' experiences, and more importantly - the huge list of disadvantages of their own achievements.
My SSD Western Digital Blue 3D NAND M.2 SSD 500GB is already the best SATA3 SSD on the market. Can't get better than it and it's not the problem..
Funny how you're comparing phone os upgrades to pc's tho...the size of the upgrade packages are a lot smaller. A couple/few GB vs couple hundo MB? Even the much slower arm processors and a phone will chew through it. That said, I've had a few OS updates on my s9+ and the first on the s20+ also took 10 mins...and these are both high-end units with, at the time, the fastest snapdragons(?) on them.
Well, the SSD's speeds are 560 MB/s reads , 530 MB/s writes as at shop.westerndigital.com/en-ie/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-3d-nand-sata-ssd#WDS250G2B0A
Now, my tests show:
From HDD1 to SSD1 where the Windows is:
Copy - paste in the same SSD folder:
What can the "personal" issue be ? Platform defect on the Acer Nitro AN515-42 ?
Second one - small enough files? Small-ish file overhead eats speed more than anything, especially on the same drive.
But "personal reasons" for a resignation in this day and age is prolly the fact he was busted with stuff he shouldn't and he took some plea deal.... I smell shenanigans.
Just like how Bob iger and disney are.... basement bob is still on training wheels and sippy cups for disney stuff.. while iger still has the whips.
Same shit pattern. So where's Intel's basement bob?
Windows ISO file that is larger begins with 1.1 GB/s and ends with around 430 MB/s...
That means that the problem is NOT in the SSD but in Windows itself. Updating is slower than new fresh installation.
Updating is very slow, it's like decompressing by the CPU that eats dozens of minutes, and then copying and pasting very small files.
Amazing logic there. Absolutely flawless. Impeccable even.There are two very important words there that you seem incapable of reading:
UP TO.
It`s read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s.
These are just speeds around the saturation of the SATA3 bus (which is by the way 600 MB/s, if you don't know) and no where it's written under what exactly circumstances and conditions a user would observe them.
Would that be cache/burst? Either way, I dont care.. its off topic, lol.
We are talking about "Jim Keller" and his Ocean Cove project at Intel he leaving.
Talking about load times is a losing battle with technology changing rapidly over the next few years.
Both companies...have new sockets with higher bus speeds huge bandwidth increases with PCIe 5.0 coming. AMD AM5 and Intel H6 LGA 1700 sockets every thing is changing... PCIe 5.0, DDR5, USB4, technology's make all you guys load times irrelevant with the technology that "Jim Keller" was working on...
This is near future stuff....Jim Keller Ocean cove is second generation big.Little...
Intel is moving to 16/32 Cores big.Little architecture and unifying mobile and desktop together under Alder Lake / Meteor Lake over the next few years. This is PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0 and 10nm++ to 7nm+ on 16/32 Cores big.LITTLE
Jim Keller will get more famous once Ocean Cove technology gets in our hands. This is the technology that Jim Keller was working on at Intel.
Power efficiency, IPC increase, Bandwidth, Prices....all fixed with Meteor Lake.
This is why Sony PlayStation 5 has several additional hardware sets which enable those storage speeds of the "825 GB" SSD.
One of the chips is so fast that accelerates as if 9 Zen 2 cores ! :eek:
www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps5-new-era-of-gaming/2
Kraken compression range generally falls in the 2-7x range. basically there is a 3-4GB/s NVMe drive underneath and then there is a hardware compressor/decompressor on the machine side of things. I kind of wonder how long will it take for motherboard manufacturers and/or Intel/AMD to implement something similar if it proves useful to generic use cases. From the descriptions so far, both Sony's and Microsoft solutions seem to be heavily aimed towards texture compression.
Suffice to say it isn't needed for most consumers, not in the least because file compression is often times limited by the compression algorithm you're using & isn't a one stop shop or solution to every file you throw at it!