Did he really save AMD from the brink of death with the Zen microarchitecture?
>>107785036He was certainly a good manager for the actual designers of the Zen and K12 cores.
>>107785036No, it has been settled a long time ago.Consoles saved AMD, if it wasn't for it AMD would have never come to the point of starting work on Zen.
no, china did (tsmc)
>>107785059so he did save them
>>107785081At least it wasn't Israel like with intel
>>107785036No, it was him pushing for Infinity Fabric.
>>107785257>Infinity FabricAbsolutely Garbage
>>107785081Zen was GloFo ya dingus
>>107785289werx fine on my machine
>>107785399Is that why they are doing a complete overhaul of it, eliminating the bottlenecks?
>>107785036Yes he did but he moved on and amd once again will loose the market
>>107786086There is a new iteration every other core arch gen, you clueless retard
>>107786647>>107786647for the first time IF 5.0 will bring meaningful changes, faggotIAYC
Intel helped a ton by being usual filthy and corrupt self but with a newfound ability to shoot itself in the foot.
>>107785036Yes, chiplets were genuinely good.They became devastatingly good when Intel forgot how to shrink transistors for some reason, but chiplet economics would have still been very competitive even intel had avoided 16nm++++++.Also it was a lot of different people coming together to make it work, though Keller was a star player he wasn’t the whole team.
>>107785036if you really need to ask, realize that AMD's stock price used to be closer to $2 a share before Keller
Zen was a game changer for them and they needed it. Bulldozer or what ever it was called before that was at the end of its rope. Too hot, too much power. It helped that Intel forgot how to design new stuff and forgot to buy fab time. Recently they have pivoted a bit with efficiency cores, but this really is only an attempt to hold off arm/risc5. Not sure how much AMD made from selling APUs for consoles, they probably did large orders at low margins.Keller is an interesting guy, I have seen a few podcasts he was on. Seems like he doesn't play with computers as a hobby, spends his time windsurfing and pondering what it would be like to make a km^3 CPUs.He also worked for Tesla for a while, they seem to have given up on their own silicon.
>>107785349And Zen1/+ was still two steps behind Intel outside of multicore.
>>107792006Speculative execution parlour tricks.
>>107792525really really wish gaming rags would redo their benchmarks with those intel cpus with mitigations enabled.all those better results (and subsequent record quarters) were 100% down to tricks which blew up in intel's face with spectre and meltdownyeah, I mad, go team red
>>107785240With isreal you lose, like intel is losing right now.
>>107785036>Did he really save AMD from the brink of death with the Zen microarchitecture?he was not alone but zen indeed saved the company.we will never really know how much he contributed though
When Zen was announced and Intel started seething and called it "two glued together chips" or something like that in a press release lives in my head rent free.
>>107791195>Seems like he doesn't play with computers as a hobby,This is how real engineers generally are. Not hobbyist faggots that destroy their bodies by sitting, indoors, all day every day of their miserable lives
>>107785036No, it was just a coincidence that he was around for both of the major AMD CPU booms! AMD totally would have been fine without him, they were just holding out lmao!
