Raja Koduri hints at June 2020 Intel Xe graphics card launch

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/07/2019 03:29 PM | source: twitter | 37 comment(s)

For those that have been living under a rock and w onder who the man is, Raja Koduri was the guy behind many Radeon GPUs, and then moved to Intel where he is working on Xe amongst other things. Now, everybody knows that Xe GPUs will see some announcements in 2020, as that was announced.

Something funny happened though, Raja apparently bought himself a Tesla Model X, and on his number plate, he left a few distinct hints. First off, the plate is called THINKXE. That's funny enough already. However, when you look closer at the number palte there are two labels on there that either shouldn't be, or simply are expiration dates of the plate. The first being the obvious 2020. The second one, however, is JUN aka June, and that's Computex timeframe folks. Xe is the development name for Intels Gen12 graphics processor architecture, which will end up in both consumer and commercial enterprise forms. We have to give Raja a thumbs up here, subtle, very subtle.

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Fox2232
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#5718645 Posted on: 10/09/2019 06:01 PM

Raja was a nobody in the time pre 2013 that he worked for AMD

Wiki says about him:

Following Advanced Micro Devices's 2006 acquisition of ATI, he served as chief technology officer for graphics at AMD until 2009

That's rather interesting position for "nobody".

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#5718809 Posted on: 10/10/2019 03:55 AM

Do we know yet what range of card(s) they plan to release? Low end, high end, whole spectrum?

Intel is supposedly intending to release GPUs covering every market. Supposedly, they will pick a market to start with and build out a product portfolio from there. Given that there's another article talking about "Gen 12 iGPU", I'd expect they're going to start at entry level/integrated in the consumer market and attempt to scale up.

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