OK, enough crap has been thrown at Andy Glew for one day! Here's a post that should enlighten you as to just how ridiculous this reaction is. I have to say, you have a very naive view of the world if that sounded unprofessional to you. That's the voice of experience talking, and it sounds reminiscent and somewhat regretful, but not at all the attitude of a broken man. If your children cannot recognize the validity of his statements, perhaps they should be taught that the way to avoid regrets is not to play it safe, but to take risks with their life.
Andy Glew did his undergraduate research on out-of-order microarchitectures. His name is on several patents involving register renaming, which is in use by every out-of-order CPU existent today. He used this expertise while working at Intel 1991-1996 on the P6 architecture. This became the first OOO x86 processor ever, and it went into the Pentium Pro and started Intel's foothold in the server market.
In 1996, after helping to start Intel's Microprocessor Research Lab, Andy left Intel to go back to grad school. After the birth of his daughter in 1999, he quit grad school to return to Intel, where he worked on virtual machines and speculative multithreading, and also contributed to the Willamette processor, the first Pentium 4. After some frustration with the work environment at Intel, he left to work for AMD 2002-2004 (some of their best years), where he contributed the fundamental ideas behind Bulldozer, multithreading and multiclustering. But he found the work environment at AMD not much better than at Intel, and left in June 2004 to write a book on computer architecture (
http://www.pvcmuseum.com/cpu/andy-glew-proposed-amd-k10-architecture.htm ).
After 2005, he ended up back at Intel (rehires at Intel are reportedly very rare... he's been taken back twice!) working on security, supercomputers, and graphics. Inventing was in his blood though, and in 2009 he left Intel yet again to join a company called Intellectual Ventures. Recreating Thomas Edison's invention factory was a lifelong dream of his, and he has nearly 100 patents in his name, most related to computer architecture, but with some nifty off-the-wall randomness, like the one on "System providing video compression/encoding for communications across a network". Also known as, the webcam!
So that's where he is now. Pretty impressive CV, if I do say so myself. But evidently, he said one lukewarm thing about Bulldozer, and all that life history suddenly means nothing. People who cannot plausibly counter the truth of his statements now find all manner of fault with his credibility, casting aspersions on his character and the manner of his conduct. But his opinion still stands, and I think his opinion holds a thousand times the weight of the opinions of those that seek to discredit him.
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