Well my input was that folks needs to get a grip of what they believe Jim Keller is capable of doing , I tried to avoid replying directly to ppl as it might offend them , sorry if it came rude.
Jim Keller is a big time old school manager , might be a good one even (I left Intel before he arrived) , from my friends small interactions with him
@Intel, he was rude and vocal , but in the end he didnt change anything substantial of how they do things , he was not the chief Arch for Zen as so many folks here give him credit for (that was Michael Clark) , although he was the top
boss in the division.
Working for over 15 years as a chip designer , i can tell you that , yes brilliant architects are extremely important for your chip success , maybe more then any other position in the org , BUT Uarch is almost always a big team and the innovations and progress they make are spread around , sure we have some folks that are a tier above the rest if you try to give them a score , but they rarely overlap in their expertise , and i would say that Jim Keller is so far from actual design of the chips now days that its not realistic to think about him as the guy who "dreams up" chips , In intel he was the guy that was supposed to put the right ppl in the right places and take out the trash management , which he did to some extent as i know some of the folks he promoted and some that he personally fired , but from a product line ? he never was the guy who had anything to do with defining and designing a new CPU for Intel , could he say "you suck , go get me a better design" after looking at projected performance/power/die size numbers , yes he could say it ,and he did , but thats not what some folks around here seems to think he is doing when he jumps around the companies , they believe he is the one defining those Archs , and just goes to a different company once his project is done or in execution.
The next company he will go to will hire him for his managerial skills and his experience in running a design team and not his technical skills which were not used in years to create anything , is technical skills are used to manage a technical organization , which is important (as i said , he can identify the smart and talented ppl and give them credit and control) , he can use his technical skills to ask the good questions and make the big calls , for example , do we TO in time or we push TO due to late bugs trends not converging , do we go to mass production in our current post silicon state , or we delay and wait for things to converge , do we approve 250 features for the next project , or do my team wont be able to execute in time and a ton more decisions he needs to make on a constant basis.
TLDR - he is NOT the Uarch engineer that has is Visio/Graffle opened and "dreams up" chips , he is the guy who runs the dreamers/execution guys organization.
The old schools guys that created this industry , and sure Mr Keller is one of them , are capable and smart and they are directors in a lot of orgs in the business , for him to stick around this long means he knows the game really well , but again , he is the MANAGER , not the dreamer , and for folks who think he can just waltz around and create amazing CPU`s as he zigzag every few years , I can only say from my experience , its far from reality.
Well Punisher , did you get to the end of my wall of text alive

, that was a long one.