Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware<article>
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<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—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>
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Guru behind Apple's A-series, AMD's Zen chips takes over Tesla's Autopilot hardware
