Jim Keller Leave AMD, AMD How Fate Next?
About
a week ago, there is news that AMD finally split division for graphics
cards, Radeon, becoming a stand-alone division and changed to the name
Radeon Technologies Group. Now the news blows again that one of the "frontman" who was
instrumental in the development of AMD is rumored to be leaving in the
near future.
In accordance of the information cited from TweakTown, Monday
(21/09/2015), Head of the Division of AMD microprocessor architecture,
Jim Keller reportedly will leave AMD in the near future.Keller himself was the key of manufacture AMD processors AMD Athlon K7 alias when begabung in 1997 and K8 processors. Then he came out of AMD in 1998 and joined Apple in developing its own
processors for Apple devices, namely the A4 and A5 processors.
In
2012, he re-joined AMD with the position as head for the latest
generation of AMD processors, Zen, which incidentally will be used on
AMD FX series processors to Intel's dominance menyaingin. Not yet known exactly why Jim Keller leaving AMD, AMD's apparent fate now seems it is in difficult times.For his successor, AMD has yet to appoint a new person. The question is, what will happen to Zen technology that is predicted will give promising performance?