A lot of people were surprised to learn that Jim Keller decided to leave Intel for personal reasons. Some argue that this is not enough time to make big changes, but we beg to differ. Just think about EMIB (Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge), a fast interconnect that was created before Keller joined, and this is something that Keller could have massively improved in its new iteration. Before 10nm chip had to have all (most) 10nm components, 14nm all 14 and 7nm all 7. Aside from bragging to my kids. Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data. He rejoined AMD to lead a new microarchitecture, dubbed Zen. Some people worry about everything and you need that. Hired Jim Keller Last Year When you hire a legendary chip architect, chances are you'll want them to architect chips. Hejmadi has over two decades of experience leading teams delivering advanced SoCs both inside and outside of Intel. High-end processor design is really hard. Intel has a data center accelerator, GPU based, it has the FPGA, smart network components, enormous server, and mobile leadership and still leads in desktop IPC in single-threaded applications despite being at 14nm for a few generations. Intel posted a news release on its website said that Jim Keller has resigned from the company, effective immediately, due to personal reasons. Keller: I have no idea. But there are plenty of famous technologists. In 1998, he moved to AMD, where he worked on the Athlon (K7) processor and led the K8 project that disrupted Intel’s 64-bit Itanium chips and gave AMD its first foothold in the lucrative market for server chips. Jim Keller was the Senior Vice President of Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group. Daaman Hejmadi, of the four to continue Keller’s work, ex Qualcomm chap is there to help with new mobile, extreme low power solutions. Now, for the first time, this famous processor architect is working at the world’s biggest processor maker. They think it’s pretty cool that somebody called me a guru on a web page. Keller was working on K12, which seems to have been canned at this point. « Microsoft limits sales of facial recognition to police, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 5 3600XT listed by Amazon Italy », AMD reports great Q1 2021 financial results. After that, he designed the Zen roadmap and moved to Tesla to create an Auto Pilot chip. When the bubble collapsed, so did the value of that deal and Broadcom’s own hypergrowth. In reality, we can imagine that the four mentioned below all reported to Keller, but they lead their specific divisions. Apple also bought the P.A. You can’t beat that. Keller: I really like working on the next product, the next really interesting problem. His knowledge of automotive and data center, as well as mobile designs, was enough to touch almost all fabrics of Intel silicon engineering. After rumors on the matter overnight, in a press release that has gone out this morning, Intel confirmed that they have hired Jim Keller as a Senior Vice President. VentureBeat: It’s an interesting time. Keller resigned effective today (June 11) for “personal reasons,” and will stay on as a consultant for six months, according to Intel. Just forget about the nanometer myth. In 2004, Keller moved on to head engineering at P.A. Jim Keller will join Intel Corporation as a senior vice president. Jim Keller, the designer behind AMD’s Zen and lead chip architect at Intel for the past two years, has left the company abruptly. Register for the AI event of the year. I said, “Where did you get that?” They said, “It’s your Wikipedia page.” I thought, “I have a Wikipedia page?” I sent that to my mom. 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. That seems like it helped them go more vertical and retain more of the profit in their business. Bringing the components together to make a processor that’s really differentiated and really valuable is hard. Aretak … The strategy plays an important role in automotive, AI, data center, and even personal computers. I worked at Digital, which was a bloody great place to work. It seems like progress is always inevitable, given the history of semiconductors and the accomplishments of chip makers such as Intel, which turns 50 this year. Whenever you have inflection points, things move around a bit, but then there’s constant — foundries are really hard. Jim Keller, an Intel senior vice president who has helped design several high-profile CPUs for various companies, has left Intel for undisclosed personal reasons, Intel said Thursday. Then, in 1999 — as the dotcom bubble was growing — he left for startup SiByte, which Broadcom acquired in 2000 for $2 billion in stock. Capodecina. Keller joined Intel in 2018 to lead the company's design efforts. There are people who are great at teamwork. Both Keller and Raja work for Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, who still acts as a group president of TSCG and chief engineering officer at Intel reporting directly to the CEO. (No doubt Tesla CEO Elon Musk is getting tired of paying Nvidia for AI chips for Tesla’s electric cars). I’m the product guy. He’s not a publicity seeker, but he has had a remarkable career as a chip architect. Above: A photo of the Intel 8th Gen Core processor. Keller spent about three years at AMD and turned the place upside down. [15] [14] After years of being unable to compete with Intel in the high-end CPU market, the new generation of Zen processors has restored AMD's ability to do just that. If you look at the semiconductor market today, it’s continuing to grow on the top line. I’m an architect, but the problem of working with organizations to build products is a really interesting problem too. Above: Jim Keller is senior vice president at Intel. Workloads of today and near-future involve moving a massive amount of data and processing it from any sensor. SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 11, 2020 – Today, Intel announced that Jim Keller has resigned effective June 11, 2020, due to personal reasons. Verification people used to bug me, because I worried about everything. Prior to Intel, Keller is known for his role in designing a series of chip architectures including the AMD K7, K8, and more recently the AMD Zen architecture. In 2015, Keller left AMD and joined Tesla to work on autopilot engineering for the company’s electric cars. It’s interesting to me, having covered semiconductors since 1994. Jim Keller’s job was to help Murthy and Raja transform Intel’s engineering and transform Intel’s roadmap strategy to a more efficient, resilient product and solution approach. SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 26, 2018 – Intel today announced that Jim Keller will join Intel as a senior vice president. “It's going to keep going,” said Jim Keller, a semiconductor rock star who joined Intel last year as senior vice president of silicon engineering, and a cohost of the event. VentureBeat: The notion that the big system companies can and should design their own chips, what do you generally think of that? 26 Apr 2018 at 12:42 #23. james.miller. Jim Keller resigned from his role as a senior VP at Intel. Intel lists four people as successors to Keller, and we are sure that they will do a good job continuing what Keller started. The mix of that has changed several times in the last three years, but the stability of — the super-hard problems tend to be designed by people who are experts at it.