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TechTechPotato · 66.6K views · 2021-06-21 · 1:37:12

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Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.

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HN recommends it as an interview dense with insight from Keller, worth hearing in full even for non-engineers.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2022–2023

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BirAdam · 2022-03 · Strong recommendation

Updated my response to include a link to the transcription. The audio/video is here: [VIDEO] It’s actually important (if you’re not an engineer) to listen to the whole thing, because he drops knowledge all over the place.

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zucker42 · 2023-06 · Recommendation

I first heard of TensTorrent from Dr. Ian Cutress's YT channel TechTechPotato. [VIDEO] It's a good source for trends in hardware.

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comboy · 2023-02 · Recommendation

K8 seems pretty small after he made the fucking Zen architecture (and Tesla AI). Lex has good interviews with Jim[1], he's not just very smart, he is wise. He started Tenstorrent some time ago with Ljubisa Bajic so I'm assuming this fab is related. Here is youtube channel for Tenstorrent[2], and last time I checked it was getting under 100 views per video... Ian also interviewed him[3] some time ago. Long story short if I had money that would be relevant in this context I would invest really hard into Tenstorrent. Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse. 1a. [LINK] 1b. [LINK] 2. [LINK] 3. [VIDEO]

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