Radeon Technologies Chief Raja Koduri leaves AMD

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#5490228
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Im surprised, i didnt think he had much input in Vega but Navi was truely his.
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Finally. So, the chick story was true?
#5490233
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lmimmfn:

Im surprised, i didnt think he had much input in Vega but Navi was truely his.
AMD Navi is so good he needs more holidays, this time definitive holidays! 😀
#5490236
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Oh I have to say I'm surprised, but other than apparently his leaving, it tells little about why and what made him decide to leave.
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Im not surprised at all tbh. It might be for the best as well.
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fantaskarsef:

Oh I have to say I'm surprised, but other than apparently his leaving, it tells little about why and what made him decide to leave.
What make you think he "decide to leave"?
#5490246
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Senior management like his position, they are never fired in the same way you or I would be. They are asked to resign and if they do not resign, they are formerly terminated. As was stated no other information has surfaced on the subject so have to take him at his word. One company had the misfortune to work for sent you your pink slip while out on administrative leave. Another company did not have the guts to fire you face to face...hired an on call hatchet guy for that.
#5490253
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What now Raja fangays SoBayed!? 😀 https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-technologies-group-raja-koduri-takes-sabbatical.416807/page-2
sverek:

Somebody mentioned he f4cked up more than he allowed to. I think it's a gentle way to say step back, Raja. Maybe we'll see him again as engineer, but not leading. AFAIK Lisa took CPU department to her hands and come out with Ryzen. She might as well step in for GPU department.
yasamoka:

... Do yourself a favor and just read through the thread first, focusing particularly on a previous post explaining what AMD's sabbatical program is exactly.
There are no long-term vacations after disappointment.
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aKiss:

I think it is a combination of crap TIM applied in the factory combined with binned vega chips offered to third party card builders. I wonder if Raja's "sabbatical" has anything to do with this and if his sabbatical is permanent
I CALLED IT!
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sammarbella:

AMD Navi is so good he needs more holidays, this time definitive holidays! 😀
lol, we'll maybe its an indication that its performance sux
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It's not that simple. We will probably never know if he actually f*cked up, or is taking the fall for the team's f*ck-up, or even the company's f*ck-up.
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RealNC:

It's not that simple. We will probably never know if he actually f*cked up, or is taking the fall for the team's f*ck-up, or even the company's f*ck-up.
It was his responsibility. Nor shareholders, nor consumers, nobody care who actually messed up. All care about numbers. So once numbers are bad, you are looking for the person who is responsible for it.
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sverek:

So once numbers are bad, you are looking for the person who is responsible for it.
And if you can't find one (due to collective f*ck-ups) then you need someone to take the fall. You can't go to investors and say "we all suck." Someone has to take the blame.
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sad to see , though not unexpected, radeon`s budget was cut right around the launch of hawaii if i recall correctly, vega is essentially the result of lacking budget, he probably did as good a job as anyone, but the shareholders/board needs someone to blame as always.
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Had a feeling his sabbatical would involve leaving AMD at a later point in time. He couldnt leave AMD just after the vega launch since it would not look good for the product or AMD. Several weeks had to pass to allow him and AMD to make that choice appear less connected to the vega launch.
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Hopefully this will be for the better.
#5490322
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Well that's sad. Wasn't Navi his work? It's a little bit sad to see that he was fired before the release of navi. Anyway I just see 2 things with this. 1. He took the damage for Vega, even dispite it's probably not his fault, since it's not his product anyway, but he was in front of the GPU division so he ends up with the blame. 2. Navil will suck.. Let's hope it's just the first one, dispite it's very unfair.
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RealNC:

It's not that simple. We will probably never know if he actually f*cked up, or is taking the fall for the team's f*ck-up, or even the company's f*ck-up.
It's even possible he gave up on the job out of frustration because he didn't see a future in it (as in was going to be fired for failure). Though I would bet he "resigned" AKA was fired but asked to sign resignation papers so AMD don't have to take responsibility for shit and he can officially say he quit rather than was fired. Whether that was taking the fall for someone else or something else we really will never know. And I'd still buy a Vega 64 card right now if I could get one for the $500 USD price (cheaper than a 1080 here)... definitely if it was a non-crap custom card and not reference.

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