[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙‍♂️
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an interview dense with insight from Keller, worth hearing in full even for non-engineers.
What it is
Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec BirAdam · 2022-03 · on “Addressing Criticism of RISC-V Microprocessors”
Updated my response to include a link to the transcription. The audio/video is here: [this video] It’s actually important (if you’re not an engineer) to listen to the whole thing, because he drops knowledge all over the place.
Recommends comboy · 2023-02 · on “Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab”
K8 seems pretty small after he made the fucking Zen architecture (and Tesla AI). Lex has good interviews with Jim[1], he's not just very smart, he is wise. He started Tenstorrent some time ago with Ljubisa Bajic so I'm assuming this fab is related. Here is youtube channel for Tenstorrent[2], and last time I checked it was getting under 100 views per video... Ian also interviewed him[3] some time ago. Long story short if I had money that would be relevant in this context I would invest really hard into Tenstorrent. Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse. 1a. [LINK] 1b. [LINK] 2. [LINK] 3. [this video]
Recommends zucker42 · 2023-06 · on “Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP”
I first heard of TensTorrent from Dr. Ian Cutress's YT channel TechTechPotato. [this video] It's a good source for trends in hardware.