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0 pointslondons_explore5y ago0 comments

He's been at Apple before. Doubt he'll go back to a place he's been before unless he thinks the landscape has changed enough he can have a really big impact again. I don't think thats the case at Apple.

No - I think he'll go to Nvidia, because he hasn't been there before, hasn't really worked on GPU's before, and because I think GPU's could gain a lot of performance by having someone look at optimizing the big picture, adding the right abstraction layers, and generally making a GPU more CPU-like to allow more execution to be moved to it more easily.

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culturestate5y ago

> Doubt he'll go back to a place he's been before unless he thinks the landscape has changed enough he can have a really big impact again

He did two separate stints at AMD, and if the rumors of Apple switching the Mac to the A-series are true (which they probably are) then there will be some very interesting problems to solve over the next few years.

schappim5y ago

Also the timing w/ WWDC coming up and rumours of an Intel → ARM switch.

majewsky5y ago

If Apple switches Macs to ARM this or next year as rumored, all the interesting problems w.r.t. chip design must have been solved at this point.

culturestate5y ago

You could make this same argument for any sufficiently mature architecture, but the reality is that there's always something new around the corner. I can't imagine the processor in an eventual ARM-based Mac Pro will look much like the one in the first ARM-based MacBook, you know?

systemvoltage5y ago

Lol my guess is as good as yours and everyone else’s.

justinclift5y ago

Wonder if he'd be interested in doing stuff with Mellanox's tech?

codebook5y ago

I think he may go to Google? or Facebook?

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