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Well <redacted> shock.His tenure at AMD/RTG has been charade while he was moonlighting at Intel.
Raja is now going to go work full time for his true master at Intel.
Vega's launch was horrendous. It was delayed, overhyped (poor Volta), Raja's didn't even deliver the final presentation Lisa had to step up and do it, the drivers still don't have all the features enabled.Ryan really gained a lot of credibility from that last rumor. I have to admit, I thought he was full of it too... but clearly he does have some good sources at intel.
I don't know what to make of this. Rumors I heard was that Raja was tossed out of AMD because of Vega's poor performance relative to Pascal. I didn't really understand that, given that Vega was released on an inferior process and likely would've competed well with Pascal if it had been on the same TSMC 16nm process. Is this his way of getting revenge? Usually when you sign a contract with a company like AMD or Intel you cannot just jump ship to their competitor, so perhaps the rumors about Raja were wrong and this was planned from the start.
Very interesting development indeed. If I were Nvidia I'd be worried.
I thought one of the problems Intel had was the lack of enough graphics IP? How is Raja going to solve that problem by himself in a couple years?From the Intel PR:
"Intel today announced the appointment of Raja Koduri as Intel chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, and general manager of a new initiative to drive edge computing solutions. In this position, Koduri will expand Intel’s leading position in integrated graphics for the PC market with high-end discrete graphics solutions for a broad range of computing segments."
Two ways to interpret that.
A) Intel is going to build it's own discrete GPU parts.
B) Intel is going to adopt more AMD parts, and become dependent on AMD.
I am betting on A).
The current EMIB Radeon part is just a proof of concept before Intel gets its own discrete GPU parts ready.
I thought one of the problems Intel had was the lack of enough graphics IP? How is Raja going to solve that problem by himself in a couple years?
So INTEL is stuck with pre 2017 tech going forward? Way to go on advancing the state of the art.People keep repeating that but it is completely wrong. Intel has a PERPETUAL license to all NVidia GPU patents filed until March 2017.
http://investor.nvidia.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-11-5134&cik=1045810
"The term of the patent cross license agreement continues until the expiration of the last to expire of the licensed patents"
NVidia arguably has the biggest/best GPU patent library, and Intel essentially has all of it under perpetual license, graphics IP is a total non issue for Intel.
Remember, Intel has no qualms with breaking the law. They broke it initially and then paid the settlement. Now they have all the fundamental GPU patent licenses, what's a few more patents to them? Nothing literally.So INTEL is stuck with pre 2017 tech going forward? Way to go on advancing the state of the art.
What if someone had all the IP up to 2014, 3 yrs ago. Will they be competitive next year?
So INTEL is stuck with pre 2017 tech going forward? Way to go on advancing the state of the art.
What if someone had all the IP up to 2014, 3 yrs ago. Will they be competitive next year?
Ryan really gained a lot of credibility from that last rumor. I have to admit, I thought he was full of it too... but clearly he does have some good sources at intel.
I don't know what to make of this. Rumors I heard was that Raja was tossed out of AMD because of Vega's poor performance relative to Pascal. I didn't really understand that, given that Vega was released on an inferior process and likely would've competed well with Pascal if it had been on the same TSMC 16nm process. Is this his way of getting revenge? Usually when you sign a contract with a company like AMD or Intel you cannot just jump ship to their competitor, so perhaps the rumors about Raja were wrong and this was planned from the start.
This pretty much shows those opinions were completely wrong.
Clearly it was him who decided to switch jobs, Intel offering bigger challenge, pay and whatever. AMD would probably have loved to keep him.
And it also likely shows that Intel considers his skills and talent top notch if they decided to poach exactly him, to head such an ambitious play.
didn't Intel fire a lot of their IGP people like last year?