Hello, everyone. I'm pleased to welcome Jim Keller to my YouTube channel and podcast today.

Jim is a microprocessor engineer known for his work at digital equipment, AMD, Apple, Tesla, and Intel.

He was co-architect for what were among the earliest of 64-bit microprocessors, the EV5 and EV6

digital alpha processors designed in the 90s. In the later 90s, he served as lead architect for the AMD

K8 microarchitecture, including the original Athlon 64 and was involved in designing the Athlon K7

and Apple A4 through 7 processors. He was also the co-author of the specifications for the X86 64

instruction set and hyper transport interconnect. From 2012 to 2015, he returned to AMD to work on the AMD

K12 and Zen microproarchitectures. At Tesla, he worked on automotive autopilot hardware and software

designing the hardware three autopilot chip. He then served as senior VP of Silicon Engineering,

heading a team of 10,000 people at Intel. He is president presently president and CTO

at Ten's Torrent Building AI computers. He's also my brother-in-law

and we've talked a lot over the last 20 years. He was a friend of mine before he married my sister

and we've known each other for a very long time since we both lived in Boston. So I'm very

happy to have you to talk to you today, Jim. I'm really looking forward to it.

So thanks for agreeing to do this.

Jim, so let's walk through your career first. It takes some unpacking. Your resume takes some unpacking

to be comprehensible, I would say. So let's start with digital equipment. You were working on

very early stage sophisticated microprocessors. So tell me about that.

Well, the long story is I graduated colleges in electrical engineer with a bachelor's and I

took a job in Florida because I wanted to live on the beach. And it turned out to be a really

interesting job as it Harris. And I spent like two years working in labs, sticking the up electrical

equipment and doing some networking stuff in some digital design. And at some point a friend told me

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