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[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙‍♂️

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What it is

Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an interview dense with insight from Keller, worth hearing in full even for non-engineers.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “It’s actually important (if you’re not an engineer) to listen to the whole thing, because he drops knowledge all over the place.”

    Jim Keller interview packed with knowledge throughout

    BirAdam, 2022-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Addressing Criticism of RISC-V Microprocessors”

  2. “Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse.”

    Ian Cutress interview with Jim Keller

    comboy, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab”

  3. “It's a good source for trends in hardware.”

    Channel is a good source for hardware trends

    zucker42, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: jim keller, amd zen, risc-v, moore's law, chip design

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