IBM Power-cores designer leaves for Google

DQ Nguyen leaves after 36 years at IBM to Google to work on CPU cores. Nguyen worked at IBM on cores based on the Power microarchitecture and will help build a new next-gen core at Google.

Nguyn announces that he has only been retired for two weeks and already get started with Google’s CPU team. There he holds the position of cpu performance microarchitecture lead and he helps to design a completely new core. He is not disclosing details about this.

Google has been designing its own chips for some time now. For example, the company’s Tensor socs contain self-designed Tensor Processing Units. These are accelerators to speed up calculations for artificial intelligence. The Pixel 7 smartphones announced this week will feature second-generation Tensor socs.

Nguyen spent 36 years with the IBM Systems and Technology Group designing cores based on the IBM Power microarchitecture. He has a number of publications to his credit, relating to up to cores from Power6 to Power9.

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