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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Silicon Wizard—An Interview with Jim Keller
In his long career, Jim Keller has worked (so far) at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Apple, AMD, Intel, Broadcom, Sibyte, Tesla, and is currently Chief Technical Officer at Tenstorrent, a start-up designing processors optimised for artificial intelligence applications. He is known his work on the DEC VAX 8800 and Alpha processors, the Apple A4 and A5 mobile processors, and Zen series at AMD, and the Tesla Autopilot. In this interview he discusses his career, the state of computer architecture and semiconductor technology, and forecasts future trends.
Posted at June 23, 2021 11:43