Jim Keller (engineer)

Jim Keller
Jim Keller, November 2024
Jim Keller in November 2024
Born1958 or 1959 (age 65–66)
Alma materPennsylvania State University
OccupationCEO at Tenstorrent
Known for
SpouseBonnie Peterson
RelativesJordan Peterson (brother-in-law)

James B. Keller[1] (born 1958/1959)[2] is an American microprocessor engineer best known for his work at AMD, Apple, and Tesla. He was the lead architect of the AMD K8 microarchitecture[3][4][5] (including the original Athlon 64)[3][6][7] and was involved in designing the Athlon (K7)[5] and Apple A4/A5 processors.[3][8][9][10] He was also the coauthor of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set[8][11] and HyperTransport interconnect.[3][11][12] From 2012 to 2015 he returned to AMD to work on the AMD K12[13] and Zen microarchitectures.[14][15]

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  5. ^ a b Graeme Burton (12 May 2014). "AMD to design new micro-architecture for 2015 launch under chip guru Jim Keller". computing.co.uk.
  6. ^ Robin Wauters (1 August 2012). "Apple's CPU Architect Jim Keller Jumps To AMD". The Next Web.
  7. ^ John Brownlee (1 August 2012). "AMD Hires Ax Series Architect Jim Keller Away From Apple To Report To Mark Papermaster". Cult of Mac.
  8. ^ a b Devindra Hardawar (1 August 2012). "Apple CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD as chief architect". VentureBeat.
  9. ^ Adi Robertson (1 August 2012). "Former Apple chip designer Jim Keller joins AMD as chief architect and VP". The Verge. Vox Media.
  10. ^ Arik Hesseldahl (1 August 2012). "AMD Hires Apple's Head Chip Designer". AllThingsD.
  11. ^ a b Andy Patrizio (16 May 2014). "AMD roadmap: Is AMD finally ready to give Intel a real fight?". ITworld. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  12. ^ Charlie Demerjian (1 August 2012). "Apple's CPU architect Jim Keller moves back to AMD". SemiAccurate.
  13. ^ Sean Kalinich (27 June 2014). "AMD Brings K7/K8 Creator, Jim Keller, Back Into the Fold". decryptedtech.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
  14. ^ Anton Shilov (11 September 2014). "AMD: 'Bulldozer' was not a game-changer, but next-gen 'Zen' will be". kitguru.net.
  15. ^ Hassan Mujtaba (5 May 2014). "AMD Confirms Development of High-Performance x86 Core With Completely New Architecture". WCCFtech.