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Title: Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware Post by: HCK on January 31, 2016, 03:00:12 am Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware
<article> <section class="page"> <p>When your company absolutely, positively needs a chip that kicks a lot of butt, you bring in Jim Keller.</p><p>The legendary CPU architect earned his chops helping with the design of AMD’s K7 processors before moving onto the K8 core, a.k.a. the first 64-bit consumer desktop chips. After that, Keller eventually wound up at Apple, where he spearheaded the creation of Apple’s A-series processor, which made their debut in the iPad and iPhone 4. Then he returned to AMD as the mastermind behind the company’s forthcoming Zen processor architecture (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919601/amd-pivots-back-to-high-performance-computing.html)—a design that promises to battle Intel for high-end computing supremacy after years of AMD’s chips being relegated mostly to budget and mid-range PC designs.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027627/tech-events-dupe/guru-behind-apples-a-series-amds-zen-chips-takes-over-teslas-autopilot-hardware.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware (http://www.macworld.com/article/3027627/tech-events-dupe/guru-behind-apples-a-series-amds-zen-chips-takes-over-teslas-autopilot-hardware.html#tk.rss_all) |