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Jim Keller saved AMD and chances are his company Tenstorrent will end up being a big dog in AI. AMD should buy his startup in an all-stock deal given the lofty

by jpgvm 3y ago

Jim Keller saved AMD and chances are his company Tenstorrent will end up being a big dog in AI. AMD should buy his startup in an all-stock deal given the lofty AMD valuation. Bring the maestro back, win the AI generation of chips.

silisili 3y ago
I'm actually curious to see how it plays out. There's no shortage of bickering Keller vs Su here, it seems every AMD thread devolves into it. If Tenstorrent 'wins', while Intel is able to catch and beat AMD, I think that would prove the strongest case for Keller. If AMD keeps staying as far ahead and they have been, it makes a strong case for Su. The truth is likely a combination of the two.
tpmx 3y ago
He does hardware, not software (wherein AMD's problem lies). Hardware-oriented companies often struggle to build good software stacks for the simple reason that they don't know what's good or bad in software, so they don't know who to hire.
- JonChesterfield 3y ago
  Some hardware guys think software is easy. You can fix it in the field and most stuff is hacks in tcl, nothing difficult there. This leads to grossly inaccurate ideas about complexity and time in software development. In the worst case, you get a model where the software guys aren't worth paying well because their stuff is easy, and somehow their stuff is always late and broken anyway so they can't be worth much. Then noone can sell the hardware because it's worthless without the code and the company fails and it's all the fault of the software engineers who couldn't do the easy thing that, uh, the hardware guys also couldn't do.
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williamDafoe 3y ago
Jim Keller had nothing to do with the rx6000 series of AMD graphics cards and this is the best series that AMD has ever produced! I think you have the credit Lisa Su with firing Raj Koduri who went to Intel to make his flaky-driver hot graphics cards there! Raj is now laid off at Intel, too!

by jpgvm 3y ago

silisili 3y ago

I'm actually curious to see how it plays out. There's no shortage of bickering Keller vs Su here, it seems every AMD thread devolves into it. If Tenstorrent 'wins', while Intel is able to catch and beat AMD, I think that would prove the strongest case for Keller. If AMD keeps staying as far ahead and they have been, it makes a strong case for Su. The truth is likely a combination of the two.

tpmx 3y ago

He does hardware, not software (wherein AMD's problem lies). Hardware-oriented companies often struggle to build good software stacks for the simple reason that they don't know what's good or bad in software, so they don't know who to hire.

JonChesterfield 3y ago
Some hardware guys think software is easy. You can fix it in the field and most stuff is hacks in tcl, nothing difficult there. This leads to grossly inaccurate ideas about complexity and time in software development. In the worst case, you get a model where the software guys aren't worth paying well because their stuff is easy, and somehow their stuff is always late and broken anyway so they can't be worth much. Then noone can sell the hardware because it's worthless without the code and the company fails and it's all the fault of the software engineers who couldn't do the easy thing that, uh, the hardware guys also couldn't do.
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williamDafoe 3y ago

Jim Keller had nothing to do with the rx6000 series of AMD graphics cards and this is the best series that AMD has ever produced! I think you have the credit Lisa Su with firing Raj Koduri who went to Intel to make his flaky-driver hot graphics cards there! Raj is now laid off at Intel, too!