AMD Loses Processor Veteran
Keller's departure won't delay Zen
Rick Merritt
9/18/2015 05:00 PM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said its product and technology road maps won’t be impacted by the departure today (Sept. 18) of Jim Keller. The veteran microprocessor designer led the effort to design AMD’s next-generation x86 core called Zen, a 64-bit custom ARM core and SoCs based on them.
Mark Papermaster, the company’s chief technologist and another veteran processor designer, has become the acting leader of Keller’s team. “We remain on track for Zen availability in 2016 with first full year of revenue in 2017,” said an AMD spokesman.
The news comes at challenging time when the PC market is on the decline. AMD and others hope the combination of their latest products and Windows 10 breathe new life into it.
![]() |
E-mail This Article | ![]() |
![]() |
Printer-Friendly Page |
|
Related News
- Synopsys IC Validator, Running on AMD EPYC Processor Powered Azure Virtual Machines, Verifies AMD Radeon Pro VII GPU Design in Under Nine Hours
- Minima Processor names Semiconductor Veteran Tuomas Hollman as CEO
- AMD Delivers Semi-Custom Graphics Chip For New Intel Processor
- Vidatronic Contributes Expertise to AMD's Latest High-Performance Processors
- Mentor Graphics Expands Mentor Embedded Linux Support for the latest AMD Embedded G-series Family of Processors
Breaking News
- Vidatronic Announces Power Management IP Now Certified on Globalfoundries' 22FDX® Platform for IoT Applications
- Synopsys and Arm Strengthen Partnership to Advance Next-Gen Mobile SoCs for Arm's Total Compute Solutions
- Arm Total Compute Solutions redefine visual experiences and supercharge mobile gaming
- Cadence and Intel Foundry Services Collaborate to Accelerate Innovation with Scalable and Proven Cadence Cloud Solutions
- Cadence Expands Collaboration with Arm to Accelerate Mobile Device Silicon Success
Most Popular
- CFX announces commercial availability of anti-fuse OTP technology on 90nm CIS process
- Flex Logix Hires Barrie Mullins as Vice President of Product Management
- Flex Logix and CEVA Announce First Working Silicon of a DSP with Embedded FPGA to Allow a Flexible/Changeable ISA
- SiFive Expands Global Operations, Opens UK R&D Center in Cambridge
- UMC, eMemory, and PUFsecurity Announce Successful Silicon-Proven Secure Embedded Flash IP