And where diid Jim Keller go???
To AMD to design the Zen core ... tearing it up in the laptop and data centre markets.
.. to Tesla on gardening leave
... and to Intel.
Apple should've said yes....
And where did Jim Keller come from....
Dec Alpha team...
... x86-64 at AMD (better Intel than Intel)
... Sibyte bought by Broadcom BCM14xx (better Mips than Mips)
... PA Semi ... bought by apple (better PowerPC than IBM)
... Apple ... better ARM than ARM.
Seriously interesting career...