Confirmed: AMD Zen designer Jim Keller joins Intel to lead silicon engineering department
Yesterday we posted that CPU architecture designer Jim Keller might make a move to Intel after departing from Tesla. Intel decided to not delay any announcements and issued a press release confirming he has joined Intel to lead their silicon engineering department.
Kell will get the position of 'senior vice president' starting April 30 and onwards and, he will oversee the development and integration of Intel system-on-a-chips (SoCs). So then, Keller does indeed join Intel, he is following another (former) CTO of AMD, Raja Koduri, the chief architect of the Radeon Technology Group, who also moved to Intel and likely soon to be joined by Chris Hook, who was Senior Director of Global Product Marketing for AMD. Keller not just responsible for the Zen CPU architecture; but also was leading the team that designed AMD’s still-upcoming ARM-based K12 CPU, pending for launch in 2017. He worked for AMD on the K8, K12 and ZEN microarchitecture and was responsible for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.
-- Intel -- SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 26, 2018 – Intel today announced that Jim Keller will join Intel as a senior vice president. He will lead the company’s silicon engineering, which encompasses system-on-chip (SoC) development and integration.
“Jim is one of the most respected microarchitecture design visionaries in the industry, and the latest example of top technical talent to join Intel,” said Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer and group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture & Client Group (TSCG). “We have embarked on exciting initiatives to fundamentally change the way we build the silicon as we enter the world of heterogeneous process and architectures. Jim joining us will help accelerate this transformation.”
Keller brings to Intel more than 20 years of experience in x86 and ARM-based microarchitecture design across a broad range of platforms, including PCs, servers, mobile devices and cars.
“I had a great experience working at Tesla, learned a lot, and look forward to all the great technology coming from Tesla in the future. My lifelong passion has been developing the world’s best silicon products,” Keller said. “The world will be a very different place in the next decade as a result of where computing is headed. I am excited to join the Intel team to build the future of CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and other products for the data-centric computing era.”
Keller, 59, joins Intel from Tesla, where he most recently served as vice president of Autopilot and Low Voltage Hardware. Prior to Tesla, he served as corporate vice president and chief cores architect at AMD, where he led the development of the Zen* architecture. Previously, Keller was vice president of Engineering and chief architect at P.A. Semi, which was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2008. He led Apple’s custom low-power mobile chip efforts with the original A4 processor that powered the iPhone 4*, as well as the subsequent A5 processor.
He will officially start in his new role at Intel on April 30.
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Intel is becoming like MS and Apple now. Buying off the competitors talent.
I suppose AMD should be flattered??
Haha
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Well, main weakness of intel CPUs is that CPU is not glued with IHS.I am not sure if Jim can make cores out of TIM but time will tell. If he can't pull it off, I don't think anyone will.
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Well, except Jim Keller left AMD to work somewhere else before he even got to Intel. He worked at Tesla for the last two years.
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^ Your missing my point.
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Intel is becoming like MS and Apple now. Buying off the competitors talent.
I suppose AMD should be flattered??
Haha