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How much do you think a one-of-a-kind designer like Jim Keller makes? I'm looking at his wikipedia page, and he's worked for AMD, Apple, Intel, Telsa. They all
by JTon 6y ago
How much do you think a one-of-a-kind designer like Jim Keller makes? I'm looking at his wikipedia page, and he's worked for AMD, Apple, Intel, Telsa. They all want him. I can only assume there's a bidding war on his talent.
- mamon 6y agoMy totaly uneducated guess is: $2M base salary, and $20M in stock options per year.
- dom96 6y agoMy question is: how do you get into this line of work? Does anyone know how Jim Keller got to be such a one-of-a-kind chipset designer?
- baybal2 6y agoWho gets to be a chipset designer, even in times when JK started his career? Just very few people have an opportunity to try their hand at this, and JK was blessed with being able to go from one good team, to another, and mostly isolated from corporate bs. A big part of his success story, was him having this great opportunity to develop his skills. Microelectronics is a career suicide in comparison to software today. I'd say 100 to 1 sieve off rate for people getting into the industry, to ones who actually get to do serious architecture work would be too small. The ratio is likely to be much larger.