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Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors — veterans establish AheadComputing

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"Co-Founder, Dr. Srikanth Srinivasan has over 20 years of technical leadership experience in product R&D. At Intel he taped out some well-known chip designs like Nehalem, Haswell, and Broadwell. However, most recently, Srinivasan led the frontend and backend CPU teams at the Advanced Architecture Development Group at Intel. The highlight of his career / achievements so far is probably the authoring of more than a dozen highly cited papers and over 50 patents.

With its pedigree, surely we will hear about AheadComputing again, in the not-too-distant future. On the flip side, PC enthusiasts may rightly worry about the future of Intel when it has just instigated the most severe layoff plans in its 56-year history, some of its ambitious construction plans have come into question, and severe brain drain, as evidenced by this new RISC-V startup, could slow any chances of revival."

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-i...-processors-veterans-establish-aheadcomputing
 
erek said:
PC enthusiasts may rightly worry about the future of Intel when it has just instigated the most severe layoff plans in its 56-year history, some of its ambitious construction plans have come into question, and severe brain drain, as evidenced by this new RISC-V startup, could slow any chances of revival."
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Years ago, at the beginning of my tech career I worked for a disk drive company that had success after success, until they didn't. Story a lot like Intel today. A death spiral that cannot be reversed. I'm not saying that Intel is in a death spiral, but it is a definite possibility.

With my company,VCs started to peel away talent to startup competitors, one of which was wildly successful. An established company became the market leader in one segment. Then they had layoffs. Less than 4 years later, the parent company shut down some operations and sold off the rest.
 
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Lots of Intels “Senior” leadership is responsible for the bulk of the design choices and engineering that has landed them in the situation they currently are in.

It’s not as big of a loss as some would think.

There is a difference between somebody who has been at a place doing good work for a long time and somebody who has been working at a place for a long time.
 
Here’s the people that left.

  1. Dr. Debbie Marr - Intel Fellow, Chief Architect at Intel AADG (Advanced Architecture Development Group). 33 years at Intel: 386, Pentium Pro, hyper-threading, Haswell Chief Architect, Intel Labs. 40x patents.
  2. Jonathan Pearce - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG. 22 years at Intel; last working on a "novel microprocessor with breakthrough performance for AI / ML / HPC". 19x patents.
  3. Dr. Srikanth Srinivasan - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG. 23 years at Intel. Worked on Nehalem, Haswell, Broadwell, Bergenfield. Led front-end & back-end teams at AADG on a "novel uArch that pushed the frontiers of processor performance". 50x patents.
  4. Mark Dechen - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG, focused on the CPU core. 16 years at Intel. Worked on uArch for Haswell, Broadwell, Goldmont, Goldmont Plus, Tremont, and Skymont. 15x patents.


At this stage most of them were likely upper management, and served more in an administrative capacity than a design one.

There’s a good chance they were on the chopping blocks anyways.
 
Lakados said:
Here’s the people that left.

  1. Dr. Debbie Marr - Intel Fellow, Chief Architect at Intel AADG (Advanced Architecture Development Group). 33 years at Intel: 386, Pentium Pro, hyper-threading, Haswell Chief Architect, Intel Labs. 40x patents.
  2. Jonathan Pearce - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG. 22 years at Intel; last working on a "novel microprocessor with breakthrough performance for AI / ML / HPC". 19x patents.
  3. Dr. Srikanth Srinivasan - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG. 23 years at Intel. Worked on Nehalem, Haswell, Broadwell, Bergenfield. Led front-end & back-end teams at AADG on a "novel uArch that pushed the frontiers of processor performance". 50x patents.
  4. Mark Dechen - Intel Principal Engineer & CPU Architect. Also at Intel AADG, focused on the CPU core. 16 years at Intel. Worked on uArch for Haswell, Broadwell, Goldmont, Goldmont Plus, Tremont, and Skymont. 15x patents.


At this stage most of them were likely upper management, and served more in an administrative capacity than a design one.

There’s a good chance they were on the chopping blocks anyways.
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These people, at least to me, all seem very accomplished and high-powered. Impressive number of patents. Of course, I don't have an EE background so I could be all wet here. But being in an administrative power rather than design doesn't make them somehow stupid. I'm sure that AMD is sorry that it didn't pick up any of these people. Of course, AMD could always acquire their new company. :D
 
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