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[agumonkey]

IIRC he went at every important cpu company back to back. Wasn't he part of the Apple soc team too ?

[paulmd → agumonkey]

Yes. Designed Alpha for DEC, Designed Athlon/Athlon XP/Athlon 64 for AMD, designed network switches for SiByte/Broadcom, designed Apple's SOCs at PA Semi, designed Zen for AMD, designed AI accelerators at Tesla, now back at Intel.

Apart from SiByte/Broadcom pretty much a greatest hits list of disruptive architectures over the last 20 years.

[hajile → paulmd]

They may be less known, but a huge percentage of the world's internet backbone runs on those Broadcom chips.

[chocolatebunny → paulmd]

Aren't Broadcom network switching SOC the industry standard?

[kijiki → chocolatebunny]

Yes, but those are fixed function designs like Trident or Tomahawk (yes, they name their switch chips after missiles).

When Broadcom uses the term SOC, they mean "Switch on a Chip" to differentiate their single chip designs from older multi chip architectures.

SiByte was MIPS-based, more like an NPU than an (Broadcom term) SOC.

[agumonkey → paulmd]

Man what a career.