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>so I'm hopeful they get someone like Jim Keller

Who do you think designed the Zen architecture? He as since left AMD, went to Tesla, and is now at Intel.

Why do you think I brought him up? AMD needs someone like Jim Keller but for software.

Who the hell is the Jim Keller of software? I don't think Dave Cutler is the right comparison, although they're both pretty fucking awesome.

Jeff Dean?

> Why do you think I brought him up? AMD needs someone like Jim Keller but for software.

If there will be a JK for software, I'd say if he lands in a typical dotcom, half of the dev team with careers typical to Facebook/Amazon/Google will be relieved of their duties in a week.

They'd never hire him. Too old.

Jim Keller didn't design Zen.

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