In recent years, Intel has recruited great engineers from AMD to advance and evolve its products. The first big signing was Raja Koduri, who arrived with the mission of developing a competent GPU and with a blank check. Jim Keller, father of the Zen architecture used in AMD Ryzen. Well, Keller has resigned.
Jim Keller for two years has been developing the company's future processor architecture. He even went so far as to say that he wanted to lower the complete architecture redesign to 5 years (instead of the current 10). Another of his big bets were the modular processors and ARM's big.LITTLE style solutions.
[amazon box="B0883P56BM"]Intel is left without Jim Keller, who has resigned
The farewell letter indicates that the reasons for leaving the company are solely personal. Although, as is logical, various rumors have appeared about it. There are those who think that there have been frictions within Intel regarding the changes it wanted to make within the company. There are also those who think that they have completed their work, something that in two years seems quite unlikely. Another theory is that Apple has made him a great offer to develop its processors and stop depending on Intel.
Intel statement
Today, Intel announces that Jim Keller has resigned as of June 11, 2020 for personal reasons. Intel appreciates Mr. Keller's work over the past two years, helping them continue to advance Intel's product leadership and wishes him and his family all the best for the future. However, Intel is pleased to announce that Mr. Keller has agreed to serve as a consultant for six months to assist with the transition.
Intel has a team of highly experienced technical leaders within its Technology, Systems Architecture and Clients Group (TSCG) under the leadership of Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, TSCG Group President 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 Chassis and Configurable Intellectual Property Group, will lead a newly created Intellectual Property Engineering Group focused on developing best-in-class Intellectual Property .
- Gene Scuteri, an accomplished engineering leader in the semiconductor industry, will lead the Xeon and Network Engineering Group.
- Daaman Hejmadi will once again lead the Customer Engineering Group, focused on running the system-on-chip (SoC) and designing the next generation of chipset customers, devices and products. Hejmadi has more than two decades of experience leading teams delivering advanced SoCs both inside and outside of Intel.
- Navid Shahriari, a seasoned Intel leader, will continue to lead the Product Engineering and Manufacturing Group, which focuses on delivering comprehensive pre-production test suites and component debugging capabilities to enable high-quality, high-volume manufacturing. .
Intel congratulates Sundari, Gene, Daaman and Navid as they begin the next phase of our world-class engineering organization and looks forward to execution on our exciting product roadmap.
Source: VZ