- Keith Diefendorff
Keith Diefendorff is a computer architect and veteran in the microprocessor industry.
Diefendorff is one of the persons that has led the industry in developing
RISC processors, both forembedded system s andsuperscalar high performance systems. He is one of the main designers of thePowerPC family of processors.Background
Keith Diefendorff started at
Texas Instruments , designingintegrated circuits processors and systems. Later Diefendorff joinedMotorola and was the chief architect of the earlyRISC processor 88110. The 88110, albeit not a huge commercial success acted as inspiration for the next processor Diefendorff was assigned as chief architect for - thePowerPC .After his work at Motorola Diefendorrf moved to
NexGen as director of technicalx86 -strategy. Diefendorff joinedAMD when NexGen was acquired by AMD.From AMD Diefendorrf then moved to Apple as architect for the
AltiVec media extensions developed for the PowerPC processors used by Apple.Keith Diefendorff has been working in the embedded processor space. First at the embedded processor
IP-core companyARC International . After ARC Diefendorrf moved toMIPS Technologies .Diefendorrf has also worked as processor analyst, and editor in chief (1998-2001) for the industry magazine Microprocessor Report.
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