In April 2018, Jim Keller joined the Intel team to lead the development of processor architectures. In a recent interview, Jim admitted that he would like to force Intel to develop a completely new architecture every five years, although now it happens once a decade.
Intel has already launched Ice Lake processors with Sunny Cove microarchitecture, Tiger Lake processors with Willow Cove microarchitecture and a significantly redesigned cache structure will appear before the end of the year, but Jim Keller's influence is unlikely to be felt before the release of Golden Cove microarchitecture, which is scheduled for 2021 year or later. Third-party experts believe that Keller and his wards will be able to create a radical new architecture no earlier than 2023 - in fact, five years after Jim's transition to work at Intel.
In the outgoing week to the channel's host I managed to get an hour and a half interview with Jim Keller, and at about the twenty-ninth minute we started talking about the necessary conditions for Intel's success in creating new architectures. Keller said that in today's realities, you need to introduce a new architecture every three years, but ideally every five years you need to create it from scratch. Now such a radical renewal occurs once every ten years, and Jim is ready to make an effort to change the status quo.
These changes will come at the cost of incredible effort. You will have to overcome the resistance of marketing structures that are focused on achieving short-term results, but are not very willing to sacrifice them for the sake of achieving a distant goal. In many cases, it's better to make a "long-term bet" by sacrificing something in the short term, Keller says, and the history of many companies confirms that this pays off. The development of sequentially entering the market architectures by two parallel teams of specialists in a "chess order" allows leveling the "failures" between the periods of release of radically updated products.
Source: 3dnews.ru
