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Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
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Re: Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
#22Jim is a tour de force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA
The part at 01:24:00 shocked me... Couple of books per week for 50 years... Damn man, that is a whole another scale.
I loved also how he explained why books are good, some takes 20 years of his experience and writes it in 200 pages...
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#23Jim is a tour de force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA
This requires a post of its own. This is a must watch for anyone interested in cpu architecture. The clarity with with he talks about some of the complex problems in cpu design is brilliant. The interviewer does a decent job to make it more palatable for a larger audience.
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#24Predicted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23498142
What was your prediction based on?
Good question. I also predicted in 2015, that Donald Trump could become president, since he was giving public speeches about that before running. So yeah, I was right. Also, chances were 50-50 since there are only 2 parties. So I predicted and he become president.
I think the same goes with this guy, Jim Keller quit Intel and could join another company sooner or later, and that will not be a former one, likely a startup. We are Genius.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
10000x at least. Whole staffed departments at rivals can't bring to market what he did repeatedly.
Nobody does that stuff alone. I think a more accurate description would be that he seems to be a force multiplier for the team he leads, which can have a bigger impact than any singular engineering feat.
He played a large role in Apple’s ARM SoCs and in AMD’s Zen, possibly the largest role of any individual.
Keller can move the entire market if he’s given enough space and resources. 10,000x is closer to him than 10x.
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#26I often find it hard to believe that a single person can make much of a difference in such intricate problem domains as chip design but in his case the evidence is overwhelming. Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship. I think in the CPU space it will be all ARM and RISC ten years from now and since Intel never really managed to become a dominant player in any…
It is hard to believe. However out of my own experience: Execution, decision making, vision and goals, people, alignment, setbacks. A very complex mixture and the more people there are, the more important a driver is. PS: Nice nickname. Read the book from Th. Mann - over a period of 7 years I think.
I like those words. Execution, decision making, etc. But can you explain a bit more? What about those concepts, eg. setbacks, are you saying?
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#27Anandtech story has some more details about the companies current and past chip designs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16354/jim-keller-becomes-cto-...
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#28> The chips also operate on the assumption that future software will involve programmers giving high-level directions while artificially intelligent computers write much of the nitty gritty code required to implement those human ideas. I can't wait to stop writing machine code.
It'll turn more like trying to teach someone to do a trick, with all the misunderstandings and frustrations to boot.
Mind you, that same thing is now done to software devs, that is, product manager tries to explain what they want, designers and devs interpret in a certain way.
Re: Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is hard to believe. However out of my own experience: Execution, decision making, vision and goals, people, alignment, setbacks. A very complex mixture and the more people there are, the more important a driver is. PS: Nice nickname. Read the book from Th. Mann - over a period of 7 years I think.
I like those words. Execution, decision making, etc. But can you explain a bit more? What about those concepts, eg. setbacks, are you saying?
If you have someone in charge who knows how to run things and help people do their jobs better while having a vision of the future you have a much better chance of success.
Re: Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
#30I often find it hard to believe that a single person can make much of a difference in such intricate problem domains as chip design but in his case the evidence is overwhelming. Also goes to show what a shit show Intel has become since even he was not able to right that ship. I think in the CPU space it will be all ARM and RISC ten years from now and since Intel never really managed to become a dominant player in any…
Honest question, are we sure he didn't make a difference? Dude usually shows up, does the work with the team, leaves.. only year, two or plus we see the results.