I don't mean to diminish the efforts of anyone involved, but I truly feel one man more or less moves the direction of the CPU industry: Jim Keller.
He, among others, invented x86_64 at AMD during its previous glory days. AMD dominated the competition. He led the Apple chips at A4, and Apple chips then and now dominate the mobile competition.
He came back to AMD and helped create Zen, to obvious results. Apparently he now works for Tesla.
In any event, this guy seems to have the Midas touch wrt CPUs, it's a shame there isn't more written about him or more importantly, by him.
He, among others, invented x86_64 at AMD during its previous glory days. AMD dominated the competition. He led the Apple chips at A4, and Apple chips then and now dominate the mobile competition.
He came back to AMD and helped create Zen, to obvious results. Apparently he now works for Tesla.
In any event, this guy seems to have the Midas touch wrt CPUs, it's a shame there isn't more written about him or more importantly, by him.