In the 20 chip design career in the AMD K8 architecture, Zen and K12 development, Apple A4/A5 chip design, but also participate in the development of bus line technology (HyperTransport) standard Jim Keller, is the semiconductor industry's most wanted chip architecture talent, April 2018 Keller ended up as vice president of Chip engineering for autopilot Low-voltage hardware in Tesla, and transferred to Intel (Intel) as Vice president. AnandTech and VentureBeat respectively made an exclusive interview to Keller. Keller is a computer expert, AI experts and SoC experts, on the GPU and software and so on to understand in-depth, but also on the transistor design and foundry has a considerable experience, in Intel will be engaged in the system of single chip (SoC) development and integration, belonging to Intel's key business areas, Lead a large SOC team and CPU execution team. Keller says Intel attracts him on a scale that adds more to Intel's product development than any previous organization. And Intel is very interested in designing a good chip architecture, and he likes to study the next generation of interesting products; Intel has a number of AI development projects in progress and is already a major player in the field of artificial intelligence. He also said he would spend time comparing Intel's competitor's products, for example, the structure of the chip, transistors and software, although the work of Intel seems very new, but basically the pattern matching, combining multiple parts, so that the processor to make a real difference with other companies, is a very valuable and extremely difficult thing. Today, the scale of the processor is quite different, Keller that the "scale difference causes physical difference", for example, his first branch predictor (Branch Predictor), which he added to his computer, is a 2Kb SRAM array, now on a chip of up to 100Mb. Keller revealed that he will be involved in the development of new-generation nodes, especially in the context of performance-power optimization for next-gen nodes, and that Intel has set standards for many Cross-platform software, and as a chip architect, he's looking for consistency and manufacturing products with technicians, and for years he thinks CPU performance, Graphics operations and node density are very important, and Intel will enter the field of graphics computing. Linley Group's chip analyst, Linley Gwennap, speculated that Keller might start looking at the x86 architecture again, and that the X86-64 architecture for Intel would not be available, and Keller said 64 of the development space was still large.
