Jim Keller, a genius engineer who suddenly retired from Intel, becomes president and CTO of an AI chip company

Jim Keller, who has been involved in the development of numerous chips such as AMD's Athlon , Zen microarchitecture , and Apple A4 and is highly regarded as a 'genius engineer,' is the president and president of artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup Tenstorrent . It is reported that he was appointed as CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

MOVES-Former Intel, Tesla chip exec Jim Keller joins artificial intelligence startup | Reuters
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Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent: 'The Most Promising Architecture Out There'
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Keller is known as a computer architecture expert. Keller was the lead architect at AMD from 1998 to 1999 and was involved in the development of Athlon (K7, K8). After that, he was Chief Architect at Bloadcom for 4-5 years and became Vice President of Engineering at PASemi . When PASemi was acquired by Apple, it took up the same position at Apple and developed the Apple A4 chip.

In addition, Keller, who transferred to AMD in 2012, promoted ' Project SkyBridge ', a compatible chip design framework for x86 and Arm architectures, as chief core architect. Although the Project SkyBridge has failed, Keller has contributed to AMD's breakthrough by developing the Zen microarchitecture.

After that, Mr. Keller moved to Tesla and was involved in the development of fully autonomous driving chips. He has been Senior Vice President of Semiconductor Engineering at Intel since 2018, but retired from Intel in 2020.

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Tenstorrent, whose president and CTO has been appointed this time, is a startup headquartered in Toronto , Canada, developing and designing chips for machine learning. The chips called 'Gray skull' and 'Wormhole' developed by Tenstorrent are designed to move like the human brain, ignoring redundant information.

Ljubisa Bajic, CEO of Tenstorrent, said, 'Tenstorrent is based on the belief that continuous migration to machine learning-centric software requires a corresponding transformation of computing power. Excellent computer, cultural and organizational design. No one can carry out this vision better than our leader, Jim Keller. We are thrilled to work with Jim and are excited about the potential of our partnership. ' I did.