JRPGfan on 06 January 2017
| craighopkins said: Zen architecture is a beast. There are some good videos of legendary Jim Keller explaining what they did |
I cant believe as soon as he was done with this chip, he just left again.
AMD should have kept him, hes way to damn tallented.
Even if AMD now knows how to make improvements on zen, and has plans for the future, keeping the guy that played a key role in its design around would have been smart.
As I understand it:
Hes the reason Apple smart phone cpu's are so strong,Hes the reason AMD had stronger CPU's than Intel back in the Athlon-64 days.
He was also the coauthor of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set, and helped amd with its HyperTransport interconnect.
Now he took AMD that had fallen soooooo far behinde intel in CPU, and put them right back to even with them?
You should not let tallent like this leave your company.
