Jim Keller

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First open standard published for high bandwidth flash AI memory

As of August 2026: His company joined the HBF effort as a consortium member

AI chips are starving for memory. On August 4, 2026, SK hynix and Sandisk published the first open technical standard for a possible fix: High Bandwidth Flash, or HBF.

Updated Aug 4

Tesla bets $20 billion on building its own chip factory from scratch

New Capabilities

As of May 2026: No longer at Tesla; currently CEO of Tenstorrent

Every company designing custom artificial intelligence chips today (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) pays someone else to manufacture them. Tesla just announced it will build and operate its own semiconductor fabrication plant, a $20 billion facility called TeraFab targeting the 2-nanometer process node, the most advanced manufacturing technology in existence. No company without decades of chipmaking experience has ever attempted this.

Updated May 30