James A. Kahle

James A. Kahle called Jim Kahle, (c. 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 with his family to Indonesia. He studied electrical engineering at Rice University with a bachelor's degree in 1983. Afterwards he 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-Familie of workstations. He was the chief architect of the Power 4 ( the first mainstream processor with dual-core, 2001 on the market) and was project manager for the PowerPC 603 and other processors such as the PowerPC 750

Later he was in the development center in Austin 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 IBM Fellow.