Martin Ashton leaves Intel and joins AMD Radeon team
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schmidtbag
Does Martin Ashton drive an Aston Martin? 😛
Anyway, pretty weird to see both companies trading employees like this. Though, no offense to him but I think Raja was more valuable to AMD than Martin was to Intel.
yasamoka
schmidtbag
Herem
schmidtbag
Clouseau
Raja failed to deliver period. If you cannot deliver with the resources given to you, you out source or attain the needed resources. There are road maps followed and the critical time line junctions are highlighted. If a critical junction passes and nothing was done in time to alleviate the issue, it is on the managing director. If one fails to plan, they plan to fail. Why was Keller brought back into the fold for the cpu division? The necessary resources are acquired if they do not exist already internally. Like was stated, Raja failed. Why he was kicked to the curb. Execs at that level are not fired. They are told to resign or they will be fired.
schmidtbag
Clouseau
Do not be silly. Companies are not like you and me. Like I stated in my post, The necessary resources are acquired if they do not exist already internally. Companies do not tank their projects. The directing managers do. One cannot always be successful at whatever they do. That outing, he failed bad enough to get kicked to the curb.
schmidtbag
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-amd-next-gen-graphics-tech-built-for-ps5-report
Again, Raja had the resources, but the Sony/PS5 team at AMD didn't, so, they acquired more resources: from him. You can't just magically buy more when your company is already in serious debt. Even if they were willing to put themselves in further debt, I can't imagine it'd be easy to convince engineers to work for AMD for [probably] unimpressive pay, and, when AMD's reputation has the potential to tarnish the engineers' too. Anyway, AMD probably prioritized Sony because they were an immediate source of income. Remember, Vega was still in development before Ryzen was released.
The situation isn't so black and white. I know we want someone to point fingers at for how disappointing the GPU market has been the past 2 years, but I really don't believe he is the one to point at.
Except that's not how it worked. Frankly, your speculation doesn't matter, because there's already evidence of what actually happened. Read the first paragraph:
Clouseau
If you believe everything you read, this discussion is pointless. Companies do not sabotage their bread and butter. That report was put out there to make excuses for his failure without directly pointing a finger at him. That is counter productive morale wise. My point is not hey I point the finger at this person. Creating a counter productive culture in the work place by back stabbing employees or airing the company's laundry in public would do just that. When the head of a division fails to such an extent they are kicked to the curb and excuses made so investors do not unload is what that linked story is about. It's too picture perfect to swallow. Remember, he went on sabbatical and then decided to leave and months later that story paints a story that it was not his fault. Buy it in its totality. This tangent is far off the op. My part in this is done.
schmidtbag
Brit90
Personally, I think they are trading losers with losers.
Raja failed at Vega and Martin failed at graphics for Intel.
Although, all they can do now is tell each others company some "trade secrets" about what the future will hold.
alxtorrentazos
thank you so much for adding the names under the pictures, I wouldnt ever tell which one is Ashton and which one is Wang 😛
Fox2232
Amx85
https://www.bitsandchips.it/9-hardware/7334-tonga-vs-polaris-sfida-clock-to-clock?start=2
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-08/amd-radeon-polaris-architektur-performance/2/
https://www.Disney.net/guides/2977-vega-fe-vs-fury-x-at-same-clocks-ipc (interesting, post changes gamers-nexus link to disney lol)
all an deception
greetings
For me Vega has lower clock per clock performance than Polaris, Vega is just a bit over Fiji and sometimes under
schmidtbag
I would like to further add to my previous statements:
If Raja was as incompetent as people made him out to be, why would Intel hire him for such a big project? Keep in mind his position went from VP of graphics to chief architect. To me, that sounds like he's more involved the architecture design, so, clearly Intel knows what he's actually capable of, given proper funding. Also keep in mind, he pretty much immediately transitioned from AMD to Intel. That means Intel either coaxed him to join, or, he talked his way into Intel. Whichever way you look at it, Intel agreed that he is valuable to them.
I don't disagree with any of that, but I'm not sure I understand how that relates to what I said. It's merely the specifics as to how/why Vega failed. Vega was incomplete, so, one could say FP16 and HBM2 was the most progress AMD made on it before they ran out of time and resources.
Anyway, those extra transistors still seemed to accomplish something, just apparently not much for gaming. There are some tests were Vega is underwhelming and horribly inefficient, and then there are others where it outperforms a 1080Ti (either in raw numbers or an efficiency standpoint).
Embra
I think you get too wrapped up in titles @schmidtbag . You make good points, but no one really knows what went on with Raja leaving and being rehired. We all can make a guesses on bit of info, and that is pretty much all.
Fox2232
vbetts
Moderator
This kind of threw me off a bit with the name.
schmidtbag