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Raja Koduri, Radeon Technologies Boss, leaves AMD to Join Intel

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Memo:

To my AMD family,

Forty is a significant number in history. It is a number representing transition, testing and change. I have just spent forty days away from the office going through such a transition. It was an important time with my family, and it also offered me a rare space for reflection. During this time I have come to the extremely difficult conclusion that it is time for me to leave RTG and AMD.

I have no question in my mind that RTG, and AMD, are marching firmly in the right direction as high-performance computing becomes ever-more-important in every aspect of our lives. I believe wholeheartedly in what we are doing with Vega, Navi and beyond, and I am incredibly proud of how far we have come and where we are going. The whole industry has stood up and taken notice of what we are doing. As I think about how computing will evolve, I feel more and more that I want to pursue my passion beyond hardware and explore driving broader solutions.

I want to thank Lisa and the AET for enabling me to pursue my passion during the last four years at AMD, and especially the last two years with RTG. Lisa has my utmost respect for exhibiting the courage to enable me with RTG, for believing in me and for going out of her way to support me. I would also like to call out Mark Papermaster who brought me into AMD, for his huge passion for technology and for his relentless support through many difficult phases. And of course, I want to thank each and every one of my direct staff and my indirect staff who have worked so hard with me to build what we have now got. I am very proud of the strong leaders we have and I'm fully confident that they can execute on the compelling roadmap ahead.

I will continue to be an ardent fan and user of AMD technologies for both personal and professional use.

As I mentioned, leaving AMD and RTG has been an extremely difficult decision for me. But I felt it is the right one for me personally at this point. Time will tell. I will be following with great interest the progress you will make over the next several years.

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



https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphic...a-koduri-radeon-technologies-boss-leaves-amd/

Was inevitable...i hope AMD get RTG in a good place to be competitive again.
 
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With the recent news of Intel incorporating RTG tech into their mobile chips, plus the success of the Ryzen platform, makes you wonder if it wouldn't be better for AMD to just sell off RTG. Maybe Intel would be interested?

AMD could focus on CPU design and stop loosing so much money =P
 
Losing money on every GPU isn't a good business model. Vega has been a trainwreck since release. If AMD bring out a better GPU than Nvidia, i'd buy it, but they currently don't. Sadly.

Oh, don't get me started on current GPU prices. :)
 
So much for lets now wait for Navi, that will be Raja first design from the ground up. lol.

Loadsamoney is going to have a field day with this news :p
 
Oh gawd, Navi is going to be a bust, and they’ll enter a rebuilding phase :o
After seeing what Vega turned out to be and now this, I cannot see AMD being competitive in the GPU space any time soon.

Happy I went G-Sync :D
 
Oh gawd, Navi is going to be a bust, and they’ll enter a rebuilding phase :o

Could be especially if they are depending on certain memory standards like HBM/HBM2 instead of what Nvidia did with GDDR5,etc which mean they could actually get their cards to market in a reasonable time and reasonable cost. I never understood after the issues with Fiji why they did not fathom the same problems happening the second time. OTH,wasn't the same thing said about Ryzen after Jim Keller left in 2015??
 
Wow, suspected it just still a shock really. Wonder if this has anything to do with Apple starting to design their own GPU's...

Glad I chose the Ti+Gsync route now! Won't be long til RTG is sold off.
 
Could be especially if they are depending on certain memory standards like HBM/HBM2 instead of what Nvidia did with GDDR5,etc which mean they could actually get their cards to market in a reasonable time and reasonable cost. I never understood after the issues with Fiji why they did not fathom the same problems happening the second time. OTH,wasn't the same thing said about Ryzen after Jim Keller left in 2015??

Keller left with everything in place.
Raja's leaving just reeks of disfunction.
 
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