The man clearly has many deserved achievements to his name, but that is true without this, and I'm confident the world would be better without this kind of statement.
"A multi-core CPU" isn't much of an invention per se. It's an idea -- one that is fairly obvious and trivial at a certain point of semiconductor history. Getting a multi-core CPU to run is not trivial, but it's not a single invention either, and by the time we got there, development teams were so large that it would be downright insulting to claim that one person solved all these problems by himself. Perhaps Kogge led the development of the first multi-core CPU, perhaps he was even visionary in the sense that he pushed for it before others thought it was feasible (I do not know if that is the case). But either way, he didn't invent it.
Thank you for keeping me honest, I concede the point; I was quoting from his Wikipedia entry and wasn’t particularly critical because I took an architecture class from him in grad school and liked him as a professor.
This raises my general curiosity to ask myself: among the set of things that could be said to have been truly invented by a single person (or pair/trio/tiny team) ... which inventions are the most complex ... and which are the most technologically advanced?
The man clearly has many deserved achievements to his name, but that is true without this, and I'm confident the world would be better without this kind of statement.
"A multi-core CPU" isn't much of an invention per se. It's an idea -- one that is fairly obvious and trivial at a certain point of semiconductor history. Getting a multi-core CPU to run is not trivial, but it's not a single invention either, and by the time we got there, development teams were so large that it would be downright insulting to claim that one person solved all these problems by himself. Perhaps Kogge led the development of the first multi-core CPU, perhaps he was even visionary in the sense that he pushed for it before others thought it was feasible (I do not know if that is the case). But either way, he didn't invent it.