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> He is a marking guy, You would be wrong. He worked at AMD as a design engineer, and later went to LSI logic helping customers put out custom ASICs. One of hi
by tasty_freeze 1y ago
> He is a marking guy,
You would be wrong. He worked at AMD as a design engineer, and later went to LSI logic helping customers put out custom ASICs. One of his customers, a big customer, was Sun, helping with their SPARC processor and the GX graphics chips, and no doubt many others.
In 1989-1991 I did three ASICs at LSI Logic -- and Jensen was my liason there on the latter two. He was incredibly smart, hard working, technically knowledgeable, kind, patient, and generous with his time despite being very busy.
The marketing stuff came later (or maybe said better: it was latent and it came out later)
- trinsic2 1y agoIf he is an engineer he sure doesn't sound like it with his keynote address. The guy spends more time on AI than talking about how they plan on improve technology and their relationship with their partners.
- int_19h 1y agoAI has been the holy grail for several generations of software engineers; why shouldn't he be excited about it?
- trinsic2 1y agoHe's not excited about the tech, he's excited about the money it's going to bring him and promoting it like a fucking idiot. You can see that in his keynotes.
- tasty_freeze 1y agoWe get it, you hate the man, but don't pretend you are a mind reader. As for him being a fucking idiot, he sure is succeeding at his goals. You claimed he is not an engineer -- I told you he was an excellent engineer from first hand experience -- you were wrong on that score. He is now the CEO of a company. His job now is to promote the company -- yes, that involves doing PR and puffing up the company, and making money. His role isn't to sit behind a terminal and run gate sims and figure out why some deeply buried state machine is going off the rails.