Good morning bombshell. Jim Keller, who was behind the development of the Zen cores that have given life to the AMD Ryzen and who currently worked at Tesla, has signed for Intel.
I swear that when I saw the headline in English for this news, my mouth was open. The former Chief Architect of AMD processors and current head of hardware for Artificial Intelligence at Tesla Jim Keller, has left the vehicle company and went directly to Intel. To give us an idea of the relevance of the signing, Keller was key in the development of the cores of the K7 and K8 processors. The K7s were the prelude to the Athlon and it was the first processor to reach 1GHz and that caused so many headaches for Intel.
Athlon64 was the first architecture for the 86-bit x64 consumer market, and it was a bombshell that catapulted the company into the early and mid-2000s. The K7 and K8 processors were so good and competitive, they accounted for almost half of x86 processor sales, peaking in 2005.
Keller went to Apple for a season to help the company manufacture its own SoCs based on the K8 design and later returned to AMD to take care of the Zen architecture in 2012. Later in 2015 he left AMD, with homework well done. (Ryzen are good processors), to join Tesla, where I develop chips for AI.
Intel at the end of last year hired Raja Koduri, who ran Radeon Technologies Group and who was the one who led the Vega GPU project. Raja was signed with a blank check to develop dedicated graphics cards at all costs and compete with NVIDIA and AMD in the world's second most lucrative sector of hardware. We learned last month that Intel had hired a member of AMD for PR and Marketing and now they are known to have hired Keller who worked at Tesla.
I'm sure AMD is very concerned with this new signing and with the precedents, since they are signing people with a lot of talent and exceptional knowledge. Intel wants to renew its company a bit and bet on innovation. Keller may also have a blank check for new processor development and innovate, as does Koduri. Are they shielding themselves against a possible leap from Samsung to the manufacture of processors and graphics cards?
Source: wccftech
This is all very weird:
Doesn't AMD apply the usual clause of not working for a few years for the competition once they leave the current one, which companies like Intel and nVidia usually apply?
Greetings it is obvious that perhaps intel shows some despair before amd for the advances and news in amd ryzen. and they are obliged to recruit staff who worked in it to create new products, it is a shame that a monopoly like Intel having financial strength is kicking the balls of a competitor who is hardly trying to get ahead shows more maturity to the consumer. luck