# Jim Keller: person

Canonical ID: `6a1d16cd-7a10-42ba-826c-55968da06c16`

CEO of Tenstorrent since May 2026; previously CTO from January 2021. Legendary chip architect: designed AMD K7/K8 microarchitectures (x86-64 co-inventor), Apple A4/A5 SoCs, Tesla FSD chip, and oversaw Intel's future CPU development. Joined Tenstorrent to build AI-native processor architectures.

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## Current roles (1)

- [Tenstorrent](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/tenstorrent.md) CEO since 2026-05-01 (secondary-verified)

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Tenstorrent](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/tenstorrent.md) CTO (2021-01-01 to 2026-05-01) (secondary-verified)

## Sources (2)

1. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/jim-keller-becomes-ceo-of-ai-chip-company-tenstorrent/
2. https://tenstorrent.com/en/newsroom/an-interview-with-tenstorrent-ceo-ljubisa-bajic-and-cto-jim-keller


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