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Divergence

Computer Architecture Seminar

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Location: POB 2.302 - Avaya Auditorium
Speaker:
Jim Keller
Tenstorrent

In his seminar, Jim Keller will outline the differences between building general purpose CPUs  and building AI processors. He will review the path that has been taken to build high performance CPUs and some of the fundamental premises.  AI processors are completely different from today's CPUs - they operate on the relationships between data rather than on an instruction stream which leads to very different thinking for building fast AI processors.  Finally he will discuss how CPUs and AI processors work together in the future and what will happen to design when AI is applied to all aspects of software and design.

 

Jim Keller

Bio: Jim Keller is the CTO of Tenstorrent, a next-generation computing company with the mission of addressing the rapidly growing compute demands for software 2.0. Prior to joining Tenstorrent, he served two years as Senior Vice President of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group. He has held roles as Tesla's Vice President of Autopilot and Low Voltage Hardware, Corporate Vice President and Chief Cores Architect at AMD, and Vice President of Engineering and Chief Architect at P.A. Semi, which was acquired by Apple Inc.  During his long and impactful career he has helped create some of today's most iconic technology including the AMD Zen, K7 (Athlon) and K8 micro-architectures, Apple A4-A7 processors, the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.

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