Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Jim Keller, legendary
0:03.5	microprocessor engineer who has worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla,
0:08.2	and now Intel.
0:10.1	He's known for his work on AMD K7, K8, K12, and Zen micro
0:14.2	architectures, Apple A4 and A5 processors and co-author of
0:19.2	the specification for the X86, 64 instruction set and
0:23.7	hyper transport interconnect.
0:26.1	He's a brilliant first principles engineer and out of the box
0:29.2	thinker and just an interesting and fun human being to talk to.
0:33.4	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
0:36.4	If you enjoy it, subscribe on YouTube, give it five stars
0:39.5	on Apple Podcast, follow on Spotify, support it on Patreon,
0:43.4	or simply connect with me on Twitter, a Lex Friedman spelled
0:46.9	F-R-I-D-M-A-N.
0:49.4	I recently started doing ads at the end of the introduction.
0:52.5	I'll do one or two minutes after introducing the episode and
0:55.6	never any ads in the middle that can break the flow of the
0:58.1	conversation.
0:59.3	I hope that works for you and doesn't hurt the listening experience.
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