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2021/01/21 05:39:01 (permalink)
We’re following the state of play with Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, very closely. Even as an Intel employee for 30 years, rising to the rank of CTO, then taking 12 years away from the company, his arrival has been met with praise across the spectrum given his background and previous successes. He isn’t even set to take his new role until February 15th, however his return is already causing a stir with Intel’s current R&D teams.
 
News in the last 24 hours, based on public statements, states that former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton, who lists being the lead architect of Intel’s Nehalem CPU core in his list of achievements, is coming out of retirement to re-join the company. (The other lead architect of Nehalem, Ronak Singhal, is still with Intel working on next-gen processors.)
 
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Looks like Intel is finally showing some signs of life! Intel's current processors are direct derivatives of Sandy Bridge, which replaced Nehalem. Nehalem itself was the first generation Intel moved the memory controllers off the chipset and directly into the CPU and was a fairly large changeup from previous designs. It will be very interesting indeed to see a large changeup in design from Intel's unending Sandy Bridge derivatives, even if it will take 3-5 years to see the results of Intel Senior Hinton's work.


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    Re: New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects 2021/01/21 06:57:17 (permalink)
    Hhmm, not so sure he needs the old guard .?   I would think he would need new, fresh blood.. with new, fresh ideas to counter the stagnancy that has grown there....??

     
     

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    Re: New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects 2021/01/21 18:16:38 (permalink)
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    Hhmm, not so sure he needs the old guard .?   I would think he would need new, fresh blood.. with new, fresh ideas to counter the stagnancy that has grown there....??

     
     


    Agreed to an extent but the old guard can teach the younger people
    Some interesting things. The younger people can then improve
    Upon them as they usually do.

    It’s sort of double edged but could work out.

    Hope it does. I want to see AMD trade blows again.

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    Re: New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects 2021/01/21 22:14:58 (permalink)
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    Hhmm, not so sure he needs the old guard .?   I would think he would need new, fresh blood.. with new, fresh ideas to counter the stagnancy that has grown there....??




    You're assuming Intel's using the same people this whole time. For more than a decade dozens of Intel's best have steadily been leaving the company for better prospects elsewhere like Pat Gelsinger, or retiring like Hinton. You hire people that know how to do the job. He was the architect lead for the Nehalem design, which was a major overhaul of Intel's processor designs as a whole. Intel desperately needs a similar overhaul of its current design which hasn't changed in a decade.
     
    I'm quite excited about this. I can upgrade to a Zen 4 processor this year, then in five years I get to see the fruits of Hinton & Gelsinger's labors on a new design. 


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    Re: New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects 2021/01/25 18:50:48 (permalink)
    Getting the memory controllers into the CPU also lays the groundwork for mcm if I understand it right? So maybe thats coming sooner than later?
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