Too bad he went to work at Tesla. It's nice to see that people are interested in the self driving car thing but, as in the case of Chris Latner, isn't it more fun / more leverage to work on the stuff that enables all this?
There's a lot of challenging & low level work to be done in the stuff Tesla is working on, and a lot of it will essentially be key in reinventing the auto industry. So I don't think it's necessarily fair to dismiss what he might be doing now as beneath what he's done in the past.
He basically building off his work at AMD, there was an announcement about a month ago that Telsa will use Zen chips for their self driving cars, surprise surprise. Who would have thought the guy that was lead the effort to design Zen has opted to use those chips in his new project at a another company.
Even if he hadn't helped in their design, it's a great chip for the massively parallel computing needed for smart cars.
The fact that (vs Intel) using it knocks $500+ off the price of the car (that's a couple percent of the model 3 selling price) and uses less power under typical loads makes it an even better proposition.
