Endgame: Big Tech Bytes the Dust - Jim Keller, Tenstorrent, Tesla, Apple, AMD, Intel #262

Jim Keller is a microprocessor engineer who has run the gauntlet
of today’s leading tech companies during their peak performance
years. He’s designed for Intel, AMD, Apple, and Tesla, he’s
worked for Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he’s survived the boom and
bust cycle of the tech world, and is still surfing a wave of
progress at least partially of his making. He’s currently CEO of
Tenstorrent,  an AI chip startup that’s out to unseat
NVIDIA, and is the co-founder of Atomic Semi, which aims to
produce the world’s first tabletop semiconductor fabrication
device. Normally, Jim’s interviews are all about the technical
aspects of his work - chips, computer architecture, and the
future of AI. We sat down for a conversation about the soft-power
side of progress - building teams, surviving bubbles, why small
orgs are better, how no one knows how to maintain the sweet spot
between chaos and order, and the weird coincidence of living on a
planet that’s basically made of the raw materials needed for
computers.


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00:00 Go!
00:04:09       Institutional
expiration dates
00:10:38       Life-cycles of
companies
00:16:52       Steve Job on trend
setting in tech
00:22:03       Do no evil doesn't
pay
00:26:43       Predicting
outcomes
00:34:55       Bigger company isn't
smarter
00:40:12       Tesla &
autopilot woes
00:46:02       Making new tech
affordable
00:49:46       Gen one computer
customers
00:53:29       The unrelenting
progression of tech gens
01:02:24       Organization
dynasties v. company lifetimes
01:11:46       End of life plan for
companies?
01:20:29       Civilization level
lifecycles in the background
01:26:54       Tools that
re-engineered our culture
01:35:59       What is non
computational about being human
01:43:07       Thinking
subconsciously
01:49:44       Can computers
announce and address a novel problem?
01:54:26       Super-intelligent
machines aren't a threat
01:59:16       Stuck at a computed
social optimum v. chaos
02:07:02       AI tailored personal
realities
02:13:30       Scarcity mindsets
are public enemy #1
02:24:25       Limits on government
architecture
02:26:15       More small indy
operations are better
02:30:52       "You can't build
that"
02:36:26       Interesting v.
perfection
02:42:51       Being part of the
solution
02:49:24       Happiness v.
progress


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