James A. Kahle
James A. Kahle , called Jim Kahle (* around 1962 in Venezuela ), is an American computer architect at IBM .
Kahle was born in Venezuela, where his father worked for the oil industry, and later moved to Indonesia with his family . He studied electrical engineering from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in 1983. He then went to IBM, where he worked on early RISC processors. Later he was one of the main architects of the power processors , starting with the Power 1 (Rios) for the RS / 6000 family of workstations. He was chief architect of the Power 4 (the first mainstream processor with dual core, launched in 2001) and was project manager for the PowerPC 603 and other processors such as the PowerPC 750.
Later he was Technical Director and one of the chief architects of the Cell microprocessor (Sony, Toshiba, IBM), a processor chip with nine cores for the Playstation 3. He is an IBM Fellow .
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| SURNAME | Kahle, James A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bald, Jim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venezuela |