A couple of weeks in the past silicon guru Jim Keller reached out to me with a quite simple query: lets do an interview about his new place at Tenstorrent, alongside the CEO? After about 0.2 seconds of considering, I stated in fact. However, interviews are sometimes initiated by corporations who need to speak about their product, and so I proposed a two stage interview.
The first interview could be on the subject of Tenstorrent, the corporate Jim now works for, with CEO Ljubisa Bajic. Jim was really the primary angel investor of this AI startup again in 2016, which makes the entire thing very attention-grabbing, and now the corporate is supplying clients and showcasing silicon. As CTO, Jim is actively working in the direction of the subsequent era product households, and his mere presence is definitely rising the curiosity of shoppers Tenstorrent’s options. We recorded that interview yesterday, a full 90 minutes, and are presently within the means of transcribing for AnandTech.
The second interview was at my request – a 1-on-1 with Jim Keller, discussing his function within the business, in addition to his ideas and perceptions about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Jim has two very properly produced interviews with Lex Fridman freely out there, in addition to plenty of business talks. As a part of this our interview, which is happening tomorrow (Thursday), I want to canvas the ideas of the AnandTech viewers about what they would love to ask Jim.
Jim’s abilities are broad, from atom to machine, but in addition the conceptual nature of how units, companies, and people all intersect, in addition to the analysis and ideas behind what makes us tick. Jim has labored beneath plenty of key revolutionaries, resembling Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, making him higher poised than most to speak concerning the parallels between abstractions in {hardware} in comparison with abstractions in the way forward for computation. This is a key alternative to place inquiries to Jim past the straightforward engineering questions, which is why asking our readers what you want to be talked about turns into such a broad subject.
What ought to we ask Jim about? Please put your ideas down beneath, and I’ll merge them with ideas from social media as properly. We’ve scheduled 90 minutes or so for some open-ended gentle hearted dialogue. Jim is not in a position to converse to something he is nonetheless beneath NDA about, which possible means any questions on his full at Intel will not be answered.
The interview is happening tomorrow, May 13th. Deadline is midday May 13th UK.
The interview is more likely to be printed the week of May 24th.
I additionally interviewed Jim by phone again in 2018 after he joined Intel.
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