Damn it! I know his work will already be done on Zen, but AMD will definitely feel his loss.
Can't AMD get rid of Roy Taylor instead of Jim Keller? (I know it's not comparing apples to oranges, but Roy Taylor needs to go given the recent fiasco with cherry-picking review sites to send preview R9 Nano units to and accusing multiple review sites of giving unfair reviews.)
I don't know much about the guy but he strikes me as being someone who gets very interested in the creative challenge but gets bored thereafter. As Ken Mishima points out, Zen is no longer a project, it's a roadmap. Uncharted terrain is exciting for an explorer, maps are the kiss of tedium.
I don't think that this is necessarily the last micro-architecture that Jim Keller will work on. The 50's is way too young for a creative mind to stop thinking, dreaming and planning. Keller's financial strength isn't a reason to stop, it's the power to be highly selective.
Assuming that the leaving is an amicable and reasonably mutual end of needs, my reckoning is that he'd be quite open to returning to AMD if they have something sufficiently new and juicy in due course, and if something else hasn't already piqued his interest at that time.
A high end multi threaded ARM V8 design is probably about as good as it gets out there in CPU land. If that didn't keep him on board, then either AMD ARM is canned or he has found something *really* interesting and I want to know what that could be.Originally Posted by devBunny
"Legendary" in the title seems a bit strong as well, though I'm sure he wouldn't mind lol.
I expect Nvidia could do with some help on Denver, which is well into the "interesting design" territory. Wonder how deep Nvidia's pockets are ATM.
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