AMD Replaces Raja Koduri and adds Mike Rayfield and David Wang Join To AMD RTG

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/24/2018 10:04 AM | source: | 12 comment(s)

AMD today announced the appointment of Mike Rayfield as senior vice president and general manager of AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), and David Wang as senior vice president of engineering for RTG.

Wang will be responsible for all aspects of graphics engineering, including the technical strategy, architecture, hardware, and software for AMD graphics products and technologies.

"Mike and David are industry leaders who bring proven track records of delivering profitable business growth and leadership product roadmaps," said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "We enter 2018 with incredible momentum for our graphics business based on the full set of GPU products we introduced last year for the consumer, professional, and machine learning markets. Under Mike and David's leadership, I am confident we will continue to grow the footprint of Radeon across the gaming, immersive, and GPU compute markets."

Rayfield brings to AMD more than 30 years of technology industry experience focused on growth, building deep customer relationships, and driving results. Rayfield joins AMD from Micron Technology, where he was senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Business Unit. Under Rayfield's leadership, Micron's mobile business achieved significant revenue growth and improved profitability. Prior to Micron, Rayfield served as general manager of the Mobile Business Unit at Nvidia, where he led the team that created Tegra.

With more than 25 years of graphics and silicon development experience, Wang brings deep technical expertise and an excellent track record in managing complex silicon development to AMD. Wang rejoins AMD from Synaptics, where he was senior vice president of Systems Silicon Engineering responsible for silicon systems development of Synaptics products. Under Wang's leadership, Synaptics more than quadrupled its design team through acquisition and organic growth. Prior to joining Synaptics, Wang was corporate vice president at AMD responsible for SOC development of AMD processor products, including GPUs, CPUs, and APUs. Previously, Wang held various technical and management positions at ATI, ArtX, SGI, Axil Workstations, and LSI Logic.

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sammarbella
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#5513984 Posted on: 01/25/2018 02:17 AM

I think AMD can benefit from the new 7nm process more than they are letting on since its not only a die shrink but is supposed to scale to high frequencies efficiently which is what is holding their current products back.

Higher clocks will certainly help new Ryzen refresh performance IF 7nm add more than a tiny 0.1 or 0.2 Ghz (over)clocks but AMD also need to fix high RAM clocks support because it's directly related to the CPU performance.

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#5514373 Posted on: 01/26/2018 02:22 AM

Glad to see someone from ArtX, purchased by ATI, changed the game for GPUs in 2002 with the introduction of R300, a real revolution in GPU design--and one that hamstrung nVidia for an entire two years it took them to regain performance and IQ parity. Loads of fun in those days, watching nVidia bring nV30 to market in a Tsunami of PR only to cancel the production less than six months later, squirm and squawk about how "unfair" it was, and how "nVidia believes users prefer high resolution displays to FSAA," etc. Glad those years are behind us, though...it all got fairly boring after awhile...

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