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Was it ever understood why Keller left intel recently?

• thu2111 6y ago
  No. The announcement was the usual platitudes. We can infer from the unexpected and apparently sudden nature that there was some bust-up or dispute but nobody knows why. The interview with Fridman may offer a bit of insight. Keller is a firm believer in Moore's Law, that it'll continue for a long time yet. He believes you have to redesign things nearly from scratch on a regular basis, to benefit from this firm progress. Intel, meanwhile, is struggling with Moore's Law. First 10nm, now this. Backporting architectures to older nodes. It may be that Keller realised how deep the production issues went (perhaps he learned that 7nm was starting to fail too) and concluded he wasn't going to be able to achieve what he wanted to achieve when constrained by Intel's fabs.