AMD recruits Apple processor guru as chief chip architect
Peter Clarke, EETimes
8/1/2012 9:09 AM EDT
LONDON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has announced the appointment of Jim Keller as corporate vice president and chief architect for microprocessor cores reporting to CTO Mark Papermaster.
Keller is aged 53 but has broad experience. He has designed several generations of mobile processors for Apple and prior to that worked with Broadcom, AMD and prior to that spent time as a consulting engineer with Digital Equipment Corp. where he architected two generations of Alpha processors.
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