[londons_explore]

He's been at Apple before. Doubt he'll go back to a place he's been before unless he thinks the landscape has changed enough he can have a really big impact again. I don't think thats the case at Apple.

No - I think he'll go to Nvidia, because he hasn't been there before, hasn't really worked on GPU's before, and because I think GPU's could gain a lot of performance by having someone look at optimizing the big picture, adding the right abstraction layers, and generally making a GPU more CPU-like to allow more execution to be moved to it more easily.

[culturestate]

> Doubt he'll go back to a place he's been before unless he thinks the landscape has changed enough he can have a really big impact again

He did two separate stints at AMD, and if the rumors of Apple switching the Mac to the A-series are true (which they probably are) then there will be some very interesting problems to solve over the next few years.

[schappim]

Also the timing w/ WWDC coming up and rumours of an Intel → ARM switch.

[majewsky]

If Apple switches Macs to ARM this or next year as rumored, all the interesting problems w.r.t. chip design must have been solved at this point.

[culturestate]

You could make this same argument for any sufficiently mature architecture, but the reality is that there's always something new around the corner. I can't imagine the processor in an eventual ARM-based Mac Pro will look much like the one in the first ARM-based MacBook, you know?

[systemvoltage]

Lol my guess is as good as yours and everyone else’s.

[justinclift]

Wonder if he'd be interested in doing stuff with Mellanox's tech?

[codebook]

I think he may go to Google? or Facebook?