AMD's K10 Architect Goes Back to Intel

Andrew F. Glew, who was one of the key architects behind the Intel P6 architecture that was introduced commercially in 1995 as Intel Pentium Pro chip for servers and is currently used in the high-performance low-power Intel Pentium M processors, is reportedly back at Intel Corp. after some time at Advanced Micro Devices.

At AMD Mr. Glew proposed advanced microarchitecture: multithreaded, multicluster, with multilevel everything: multilevel schedulers, multilevel instruction window, multilevel store buffers, multilevel register file, and multilevel branch predictors; supporting Implicit Multithreading/Speculative Multithreading/Skipahead Multithreading (IMT/SpMT/SkMT) and lightweight user level forking, according to his CV.

Ace's Hardware web-site reports that his architecture was rejected by AMD, but perhaps a return to Intel will give him the opportunity to explore some of the ideas. But even before joining AMD, he was an Intel man who worked on a cancelled project which was meant to extend the IA32/x86 instruction set to 64-bits, The Inquirer web-site reckons.

• Ace's Hardware: Andy Glew Returing to Intel?
• The Inquirer: Intel Man Shows He's Sticky, Sticky Glew.
• Andrew F. Glew CV.