person
David Patterson
UC Berkeley emeritus; Google AI hardware; 2017 Turing Award
UC Berkeley professor emeritus and distinguished engineer at Google. Co-architect of RISC; co-author of the Hennessy-Patterson computer architecture textbook. Co-recipient of the 2017 Turing Award; current focus on AI accelerators (TPUs).
current Professor Emeritus, EECS, UC Berkeley; Distinguished Engineer, Google
Strategy positions
Compute governanceendorses
Control flops via export controls, licensing, reportingArgues domain-specific architectures (TPUs, GPUs) are how AI scaling is being achieved; the supply and design of these chips is now a strategic concern of states.
We are entering a new golden age of computer architecture, driven by the end of Moore's Law and the rise of domain-specific accelerators. AI is the dominant such domain, and where the chips are made matters more than ever.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.