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Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
Lex Fridman · Feb 5, 2020 · 1h 34m
What this video covers
Lex Fridman interviews legendary chip architect Jim Keller about Moore's Law, microprocessor design, and first-principles thinking. Keller draws on his work at AMD, Apple, Tesla and Intel, discussing instruction sets, transistor budgets, and self-driving.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
HN cites it whenever chip architecture, Moore's Law or CPU design comes up, as an unusually deep and accessible view from a top designer.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“I was stunned by Jim's total command of Computer Architecture, and his deep insights about the subject.”
“Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well.”
“skip to 1:20:50 of this (effing amazing) interview”