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You may not know Jim Keller, but if you know more or less about mobile phones and computer chips, then you must know AMD’s Ruilong series and Apple’s A series processors. And the design of these products has a person’s shadow behind it.
Yes, it’s Jim Keller.
Today, the sudden departure of Jim Keller, the head of Intel’s silicon engineering department and senior vice president, caused an uproar in the semiconductor industry.
Intel’s official website suddenly announced today that this chip design master figure who had been poached by Intel from Tesla in 2018 has submitted his resignation, and the “resignation” will take effect immediately from the announcement of Intel’s official website. But he will continue to serve as a “symbolist” consultant for six months.
Although Intel’s official website only vaguely summarized Keller’s reasons for leaving as “personal reasons,” the company subsequently announced to the outside world that Intel’s chief engineer Murthy Renduchintala’s technology, system architecture, and customer department (TSCG) will promote four Engineers hold higher positions.
Screenshot from Intel’s official website
Obviously, Intel wants to weaken the attention brought by Keller’s departure as much as possible, but the media don’t seem to want to let go of this semiconductor design genius that has made some contributions to AMD, Apple and Tesla.
Bloomberg quoted Hans Mosesmann, an analyst at Rosenblatt Securities, a securities firm, to write to investors to express concerns about the prospects of Intel chips:
“Keller