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Didn't know (Colwell) got hired. That's cool. Colwell went to Multiflow first, and then went to Intel after Multiflow fell apart. He played a very key role at
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Didn't know (Colwell) got hired. That's cool.
Colwell went to Multiflow first, and then went to Intel after Multiflow fell apart. He played a very key role at Intel, as the architect of many x86 chips:
He was the chief IA-32 architect on the
Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III,
and Pentium 4 microprocessors.[1]
One of the talks that Colwell gave had to do with the P4, and how the marketing people forced the engineers to prioritize clock rate above all else, during the Megahertz Wars. Needless to say, that did not turn out well.
Colwell wrote a book, The Pentium Chronicles, but I can't recommend it because I haven't read it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Colwell
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat is quite the track record. Also seems to have made all the chips the modern effort must compete with. I might try to get the book just to see what issues they encountered and worked around. Darn guarantee that next effort will run into similar problems given they'll have to do same trajectory from old fabs to mid-grade ones to cutting edge with various verification and optimizations along the way.