I take it Jim fired you at some point in your career. Unless you're arrogant enough to look back at everything Jim's designed, from the DEC Alpha 21164, 21264,

I take it Jim fired you at some point in your career. Unless you're arrogant enough to look back at everything Jim's designed, from the DEC Alpha 21164, 21264, VAX 8800, K7, A4, A5, Tesla Autopilot hardware, and of course Zen, and then say "Yeah this guy that did Nehalem is more talented..." I would work for Jim Keller for free. Lightning strikes everywhere he goes, that's not by accident. No one is that lucky - no one. I said on my investing blog that Keller would get pushed out by Intel's shit corporate structure and I was right. Intel isn't rotten, its gangrenous, and there's a lot of tissue that needs to be excised if the patient is going to be saved. Everyone who listens to Jim Keller ends up with better products and more sales. Every time. Without fail. If you think that isn't being the "real deal", there's something wrong with you, not Jim.