They will split the US$1 million bonus offered by Google. Hennessy is the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, which is a member of the Google Brain team.
In 1981, under the leadership of Patterson, a team from the University of California, Berkeley, drafted RISC-1, which is the foundation of today's RISC architecture. RISC-1 was subsequently chosen by Sun Microsystems to create the Sparc processor.
Almost at the same time, Hennessy, who teaches at Stanford University, is also exploring the RISC architecture and co-founded MIPS Computer Systems to transform its vision into a true device. MIPS targets high-end computer workstations, game consoles, aircraft, and network devices. Production chip.
In 1990, Patterson and Hennessy co-authored the book "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", which spreads the RISC concept to academics and industry. Until now, this book is still a programmer, a computer engineer and a processor designer. Read a book. Their research has had a huge impact on the development of many chips. From Arm to Alpha to PowerPC, these chips are widely used in today's smart phones, Internet of things, tablets, servers and other devices. .
Hennessy later became president of Stanford University and later joined Alphabet. Patterson also became a Google person and vice chairman of the RISC-V Foundation. RISC-V is an open, free RISC CUP framework, Western Digital, Nvidia and Companies such as Google are using it.