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Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman · 742.2K views · 2020-02-05 · 1:34:44

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Lex Fridman interviews legendary chip architect Jim Keller about Moore's Law, microprocessor design, and first-principles thinking. Keller draws on his work at AMD, Apple, Tesla and Intel, discussing instruction sets, transistor budgets, and self-driving.

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HN cites it whenever chip architecture, Moore's Law or CPU design comes up, as an unusually deep and accessible view from a top designer.

Recommended by 8 HN people across 8 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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WestCoastJustin · 2023-04 · Strong recommendation

I didn't make the connection until now, but Jim Keller was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice [1, 2] and it was awesome. In terms of founders this is pretty great team. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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robocat · 2022-09 · Strong recommendation

Jim Keller talks about his impression working with Elon - skip to 1:20:50 of this (effing amazing) interview: [VIDEO] Edit: Also Jim talks about Elon’s engineering skills at 50 minutes into this interview: [LINK] Disclaimer: I’m not an Elon fan at all.

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Pandabob · 2020-12 · Strong recommendation

Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well. Lex really does a great show and has amazing guests. [0]: [VIDEO] [1]: [LINK]

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