Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it whenever chip architecture, Moore's Law or CPU design comes up, as an unusually deep and accessible view from a top designer.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Lex Fridman

Topic

microprocessor architecture

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• I highly suggest viewing one of the Alpha's original designers, Jim Keller, recent chat with MIT Prof Lex Fridman [VIDEO] I was stunned by Jim's total command of Computer Architecture, and his deep insights about the subject. I will never again utter the phrase 'modern …

• Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well. Lex really does a great show and has amazing guests. [0]: [VIDEO] [1]: [LINK]

• Jim Keller talks about his impression working with Elon - skip to 1:20:50 of this (effing amazing) interview: [VIDEO] Edit: Also Jim talks about Elon’s engineering skills at 50 minutes into this interview: [LINK] Disclaimer: I’m not an Elon fan at all.