Raja Koduri Joins Intel as Chief Architect Cores and Visual Computing
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sverek
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.
sykozis
AMD needs to keep a close eye on any discrete chips that come from Koduri's new division at Intel....
Anarion
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.
sverek
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.
user1
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
Anarion
Their press release did say "broad range" and integrated graphics with discrete graphics in same sentence though. So, the may very well try gaming too. They will definitely go after HPC though.
asturur
I do not think he `failed`
You do not apply to this kind of jobs like you do for a programmer position or a classical engineering role and your kind of skills are not measured in FPS.
AMD while not having high FPS as NVIDIA, managed to keep the door open all this time without quitting, got the deal with XBOX and PS4. They did good apu that intel did not.
He has probably a salary that most of us dream of, i would not use nor `fail` nor `mental limits` to describe his career.
Kaarme
That's an overly optimistic view. Just look at how it ultimately went with Apple and Imagination. That's how the big business works. Intel sees how the very thin and light laptops and laptop/tablet hybrids are growing, and obviously wants to maintain its share of the cake. It's worried for a reason about AMD's Ryzen APU, which isn't that far behind in CPU IPC but beats any Intel iGPU no questions asked. Now Intel came up with this this solution incorporating their own CPU and a separate Radeon GPU in the same packet, but I wouldn't bet on that being their end goal. It could be just something to buy them time. Since they do have the Nvidia licenses, they just need to put in money and effort to raise their own GPU performance up to compete with AMD (and Nvidia) at least in the low-energy mobile market.
Like Anarion said, I guess Intel must have contacted Koduri a long time ago already, offering good wages and an opportunity to begin from a scratch with a jolly good budget. It ought to sound very good to Koduri after the stringent budget years at AMD.
RzrTrek
I can only wish him the best of luck, but this doesn't look too good.
user1
overly optimistic perhaps, keep in mind rtg is a separate entity from amd now (for the most part) they probably benefit more from intel's buisness than amd's, you may think that amd would block such a thing but part of the reason radeon was separated from amd was that it allows them to do things like this without such conflicts.
Have a hunch nvidia has something big cooking for mobile, it's arm cores are getting better... an xavier tegra with 8 denver3 cores and 512 volta cuda cores may be a serious threat.
Solfaur
Next step would be Intel buying AMD's Radeon division. 🙄
rl66
Once the confidencial delay is over, he can do more or less reverse tech research and so do what intel have done with NVidia 🙂 ... it's legal, NVidia have lost.
On other hand it wouldn't be bad.
Silva
I see so many anti AMD people commenting on this forum it's hilarious.
Last thread people argued he got fired because he failed to deliver with Vega. Now they're still bashing hard against AMD and Raja...
Although Vega loses to Pascal in Gaming, it's a brutal computing card. I don't see them failing to sell Vega tech to companies needing the computing power for work, and that's where the majority of monetary gains come from for many companies.
Now, although I'm a little sad he switched sides to Intel, it's good to know another player will be making GPU's and in 2 or 3 years Nvidia might have someone to fight with.
Let's just hope he left a good legacy for Navi.
sammarbella
That could be the best for PC gamers and gaming GPU prices : ATI GPUs with Intel R&D budget.
I don't see US let Samsung buy RTG and AMD is not going to put the kind of budget ($$$$$) it needs to beat Nvidia advantage in gaming.
fantaskarsef
I personally don't think Intel will try to tackle the gaming GPU market. I honestly don't see them trying to enter that market, I guess they will stick to dedicated cards for rendering, computing, and possibly systems that need many connectors like video walls and stuff. But you'll never know, I would like a third competitor in the dGPU market for gaming.
TieSKey
I wouldn't be so sure, knowing intel, they would (ab)use their GPUs to lock us down on their cpus/chipsets or something.....
Turanis
After blah blah :
"On a final note, I have asked a lot of you in the last two years. You've always delivered. You've made me successful both personally and professionally, for which I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I have these final requests from you as I leave:
. Stay focused on the roadmap!
. Deliver on your commitments!
. Continue the culture of Passion, Persistence and Play!
. Make AMD proud!
. Make me proud!
Yours,
Raja"
Now joins Intel,he is a traitor or a merc? 🙄
nz3777
This is just a guess on my end- I think Intel is trying to grab a chunk out of Nvidias gaming segment. Even if they do not beat them at the fps catagory but are able to offer pretty close performance our beloved team-green will finally have someone to fight against lol.
If they made a chip with gtx 660ti performance for gaming plus intel single core performance We would have some interesting times ahead for sure.
D3M1G0D
Yeah, I wouldn't expect any consumer GPUs from Intel. Their main beef with Nvidia is with things like AI and machine learning, and this is probably where they are focusing with regard to Koduri. If they do end up making a consumer GPU, it would only be to spite Nvidia, not as a serious product in its own right.
waltc3
Most people seem to be missing the obvious, which is that the new discrete mobile GPUs Intel will be designing and buying from AMD and Raja's move are *no* coincidence, of course. So, evidently all of this has been in the works for sometime.
