AMD Replaces Raja Koduri and adds Mike Rayfield and David Wang Join To AMD RTG
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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Interesting that they split up what Koduri was apparently doing alone to two people now.
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Seems reasonable to have manager and engineer roles separated.
Good luck to both of them! Do to Novidia what Ryzen did to Intel!
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Considering Koduri didn't exactly succeed phenomenally, it makes sense. It was clearly too much for just a single man. One of the biggest faults was that nobody had apparently evaluated beforehand if they can actually manufacture the Vega+interposer+HBM2 modules in quantities that would have any significance in the market. Maybe now that they have two guys, when one says lets do this, the other one can say whether it actually can happen or not. No such thing during Koduri's time.
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Two execs specialized on mobile chips on their careers (Tegra, SoC, mobile): expect energy efficiency and low performance; SoC and APU.
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It will be interesting to see if AMD will be any different.