Will Zen fail now that Uncle Jimmy left? :(

[KarateHottie93]

Yup boys, Jim Keller has left the building for those who don't know

 

He was the head honcho of Zen. What happens with it from here?

 

http://wccftech.com/legendary-cpu-architect-jim-keller-left-amd-pursue-opportunities-x86-zen-track/

[Drixen]

It's okay, this will not affect AMD. In fact, since Jim's presence.. honestly there has not been A LOT of improvement. With a fresh mind, comes fresh engineering and way of thinking. Companies do this shift all the time, lead architects come and go. Part of the job.

 

Good luck AMD, on finding a better, stronger and fresh mind! :D

[JoaoPRSousa]

Well, let's just hope he isn't replaced by some stupid asshat that will ruin the business.

[DarkBlade2117]

Well, let's just hope he isn't replaced by some stupid asshat that will ruin the business.

Dennis will replace him and make a 256core Opteron for only the low price of $99,999

[KarateHottie93]

Lol sorry for all the title changes. Realised a similar topic was already in the "News" section so I had to change it up.

[TheKDub]

Well, let's just hope he isn't replaced by some stupid asshat that will ruin the business.

 

I'm not too sure there's much left to be ruined lol

[themaniac]

well he probably left after to whole designing prototyping was done so i doubt zen fail because of that

 

EDIT: @LinusTech is on here 

[Thomas CG]

Zen really need to save AMD's ass. They need new products badly.

[The Official Czex]

Dennis will replace him and make a 256core Opteron for only the low price of $99,999

 

256 / 18 = 14 1/3 

 

14 1/3 x $4,500 = ~ $64,500 

 

Eh. Not a huge price gap. 

 

[JoaoPRSousa]

I'm not too sure there's much left to be ruined lol

 

I knew someone would say this. Oh well.

[Sakkura]

Development of Zen is mostly done, so it shouldn't really be affected. Keller left AMD 3-4 years before "his" K8 design hit the consumer market, and that still worked out very well for AMD.

[samcool55]

Jimmy is probably done with it's job so AMD probably doesn't need him anymore.

[lightningterror]

The way i see it he did his work and left after everything was set in motion so no.

[Zeruel]

So I finished making a CPU architecture and its currently being finalized for mass production, dafuck do I do? Sit around all day in the cafeteria eating donuts and coffee or go to my next project?  

[Drixen]

Nice comments everyone. With this being so new, speculation is obviously all we can work with, time will tell. Honestly I think AMD is going to be just fine.

[xnoobftw]

Im quite worried about this and what will happen if they do?

[Shoob]

This topic isn't for here.

The short answer is "no".

[blackadder]

They won't. Monopoly laws will start to kick in.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Up lorry die already. /s

 

No It won't happen, not now anyway. Maybe in a few years, who knows?

[Guest]

how is this troubleshooting?

 

Answer: No

[Samsterstorm]

They wont........ And why should u worry?? Will just make picking parts easier!!! Someone would buy them if they ever got close anyway its fine!

[ThinkWithPortals]

I sure hope not. 

[JefferyD90]

Intel best hopes they don't... Cause with AMD gone the x86 license is useless, both AMD and Intel have to be in existence in order for Intel to continue to make x86 CPUs.  Additionally, because the same laws don't apply to x64, when AMD goes so does x64!

[LancerBG]

They won't. Monopoly laws will start to kick in.

 

Do you know how exactly a Monopoly would work in this case? 

[Imabigmac]

No, because they will slowly break apart and explode. Until they ditch enough weight to become profitable or find themselves in a new market. They probably have too many financial backers who don't want to see the company shut down and will put money into AMD, but that not to say AMD may have major changes in next few years.