My Two Decades of Riding the Waves of Computing Technology at Intel

Relate my role as Contributor and Witness to Something Wonderful that has Changed our

Lives Forever

Engineering Honors Seminar– April 17 2015

So I asked my Mom….

What is one thing that has transformed people’s lives in her lifetime?

Computers

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So I asked myself the same question….

What is one thing that has transformed people’s lives in my lifetime?

The Internet

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Computing Devices

Internet

And that led to the obvious…

Isn’t there a strong nexus between the two?

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What started as a passion in learning and research shaped into 20 years of cutting edge development of technology

drivers

Pentium®

Pentium® II/III

Pentium® 4

Knights Ferry

Knights Corner

Knights Landing

1994 1996 1998 2000 2003 2010 2012 2014

My History of Intel Processors

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Participated in these Key Trends

Feature size

Knights Landing (Xeon Phi)

Knights Corner (Xeon Phi)

Knights Ferry (Xeon Phi SDV)

Prescott (Pentium 4®)

Tualatin (Pentium® III)

Coppermine (Pentium® III)

Deschutes (Pentium® II)

P54CS (Pentium® ) 350nm

250nm

180nm

130nm

90nm

45nm

22nm

14nm

Frequency

133MHz

450MHz

733MHz

1.0GHz

3.4GHz

1.1GHz

1.23Ghz

TBA

# of Cores

1

1

1

1

1

32

62

72

# trans, metal

3M, 3

8M, 5

28M, 6

32M, 6

169M, 7

2.3B, 9

~5B, 9

>>5B, >9

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33.8PF

0.118PF

Top500.org

–PC World calls it Intel’s Most Powerful Chip Ever

–ZDNET

• In the last 4 years, I led the development of Knights Landing Supercomputing Chip

What have been up to in this Decade?

–This achievement helps us realize our dream of changing the future of computing!

Democratizing HPC

ASCI RED was reported at $70M in today’s money. One can buy a Knights Corner Card on amazon.com for $1250

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What have been up to in this Decade?

• I retired from Intel in 2014 to pursue my life-long passion in teaching and learning

• Here at Texas A&M CSE, I am a Prof. of Practice–I teach CSCE-313 (Intro to Computer Systems), CSCE-481 (Seminar), and CSCE-489 (Intro to Design Verification)

In Closing….A Word about the Title

•My Story –Watch the waves– Ride the waves

•What I’d like for you

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Create the waves