Allen
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AMD’s Zen & Athlon64 CPU Architect Jim Keller Joins Intel
Keller was the mastermind behind the most successful and competitive CPU microarchitectures in AMD’s history. ..
Athlon64 was the first consumer x86 64bit CPU and a massive success for the company in the early to mid 2000s. In fact the K7 and K8 designs were so competitive, that it eventually allowed AMD to take nearly half of all x86 CPU share at its peak in 2005.
This is the third recent AMD upper management type (but he was currently head of AI hardware at Tesla) to go Intel.
Thinking is that Intel really is in danger of falling behind. If so, the blame lies with the current Intel staff. I has been speculated that the recent personnel moves are to get folks on Intel staff who know what they are doing.
Interesting that the folks tasked with getting Intel right are former AMD folks.
