Raja Koduri Joins Intel as Chief Architect Cores and Visual Computing
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.
Raja Koduri announced his departure at AMD yesterday and will start at with Intel. He will start in December as chief architect and senior vice president of the new Core and Visual Computing Group. Simply put, Intel says to want to make high-end GPUs.
With the Core and Visual Computing Group, Intel wants to address the market for GPUs in data centers and for applications such as artificial intelligence. Intel also mentions client computers, these would be consumer parts, and thus that is indicative of gaming graphics cards for gamers. Concrete plans have not yet been announced.
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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.
Billions of users today enjoy computing experiences powered by Intel’s leading cores and visual computing IP. Going forward under Koduri’s leadership, the company will unify and expand differentiated IP across computing, graphics, media, imaging and machine intelligence capabilities for the client and data center segments, artificial intelligence, and emerging opportunities like edge computing.
“Raja is one of the most experienced, innovative and respected graphics and system architecture visionaries in the industry and the latest example of top technical talent to join Intel,” said Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer and group president of the Client and Internet of Things Businesses and System Architecture. “We have exciting plans to aggressively expand our computing and graphics capabilities and build on our very strong and broad differentiated IP foundation. With Raja at the helm of our Core and Visual Computing Group, we will add to our portfolio of unmatched capabilities, advance our strategy to lead in computing and graphics, and ultimately be the driving force of the data revolution.”
Koduri brings to Intel more than 25 years of experience in visual and accelerated computing advances across a broad range of platforms, including PCs, game consoles, professional workstations and consumer devices. His deep technical expertise spans graphics hardware, software and system architecture.
“I have admired Intel as a technology leader and have had fruitful collaborations with the company over the years,” Koduri said. “I am incredibly excited to join the Intel team and have the opportunity to drive a unified architecture vision across its world-leading IP portfolio that help’s accelerate the data revolution.”
Koduri, 49, joins Intel from AMD, where he most recently served as senior vice president and chief architect of the Radeon Technologies Group. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of graphics technologies used in AMD’s APU, discrete GPU, semi-custom and GPU compute products. Prior to AMD, Koduri served as director of graphics architecture at Apple Inc., where he helped establish a leadership graphics sub-system for the Mac product family and led the transition to Retina computer displays.
Koduri will officially start in his new role at Intel in early December.
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AMD needs to keep a close eye on any discrete chips that come from Koduri's new division at Intel....
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I think this "sabbatical" was needed in order to switch the company. He probably intended to do this for quite some time ago and after VEGA was done he was free to do this. VEGA's failure isn't one guys fault. At the moment I'd worry about RTG's future. It looks like Intel is truly going to start to challenge NVIDIA in GPU market in all segments.
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Considering they talking about computing in article, it might be totally different type of GPUs. We probably talking about workstations GPU here.
Nothing for mere consumers. Nvidia gonna keep its FPS crown for a while, until AMD switches from computing to gaming.
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I wouldn't worry. I think this is connected to the intel radeon partnership that is occuring with that new MCM they annouced, I ultimately think this will end up with intel licensing a radeon graphics core to be fully integrated into intel's desktop cpus to replace intel's potato igpu designs. having someone like raja at intel will be very helpful for that process.
edit: Would be quite the plan , a radeon gpu in every intel cpu and amd cpu, sounds like a plan to snag major market and brand recognition with mutual benefit to intel and amd/RTG
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Raja: F*ck making GPUs for games, time to make GPUs for computing.
I guess after all, he got tired of fighting with Nvidia over FPS... I bashed this dude a lot, but damn... he deserves some respect.