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Not mentioned in the bloomberg article (at the time of reading): Keller is apparently moving to _Intel_ (according to a quick search).

Wow, I really hope that doesn't worsen the current imbalance of the x86 and GPU markets. Given that Keller seemed to be to Ryzen at AMD what Raja was to Vega/Polaris, it doesn't look good.

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That's really hilarious, because Intel's entire automotive division is run by the guy who came from the Mobile Eye acquisition. For those that don't remember - Mobile Eye was one of Tesla's tech suppliers until they split up. Then Mobile Eye basically came out and said that Tesla's self-driving technology was unsafe. It was a massive PR hit for Tesla, and a massive PR hit for Mobile Eye (who wants a technology partner that'll publicly accuse you like that).

It'll be interesting to see Keller work in that environment.

Tesla tried to throw MobilEye under the bus and MonileEye basically said that they’ve used their platform out of spec and out of its functional domain, there were also some cheeky remarks by Amnon who was making statements like “if you have big balls like Tesla you can only use a single sensor type with no redundancy”.

Currently MobilEye seems to be the only vendor who doesn’t oversells their capabilities like crazy and has a solid evolutionary roadmap on all 3 landscapes - technology, regulation, and business model.

Any direct links to learn more about Mobile Eye's roadmap for the curious?

Their CES talks are usually quite good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ15HWCw_Ic

This one about their safety model is also quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L92hR5CSw1E

Do you also consider Waymo to be a vendor?

If they won't be on some level it's an extreme waste of effort.

Of course. Why else has Google spent billion on the tech?

MobilEye was long time technology provider of the same technology for BMW and later Volvo. MobilEye has basically developed their technology with those companies.

Tesla was than later coming into the game as customer of MobilEye. The difference is, that Elon enabled much and sold it differently than the very same technology was used and still is used at BMW and Volvo. Then with first big accident (the death in Florida) Elon wanted to accuse MobilEye. But actually it was Elon who sold that technology in away it was still not ready for. MobilEye was very aware of that. But taking all the blame was the reason to split up.

Btw. BMW and Volvo both have radar on board, which the first Tesla lacked of, because Elon doesn't wanted to spent that money.

Not just Zen. He headed the development of the Athlon, Athlon64, and also Apple's early custom SoC efforts.

> Keller is apparently moving to _Intel_ (according to a quick search).

I did find it odd when he took a hybrid hardware/software role at Tesla. Probably was mainly working on clockless low power neural net processors.

Considering what he did at AMD with meagre resources, I can't wait to see what impact he makes at Intel with an unlimited budget.

Eh, Raja wasn't all that great - he promised the earth and delivered nowhere near.

Isn't Navi really the first architecture Raja would have have much impact on? He rejoined AMD in 2013 [0] and designs for architectures take several years to go from design to consumers. Jim Keller joined AMD a year earlier and we didn't see stuff he worked on until Zen.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/6907/the-king-is-back-raja-ko...

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