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. 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.
Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer and group president of the Client and Internet of Things Businesses and System Architecture, said:
“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. 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.
Raja Koduri added:
“I have admired Intel as a technology leader and have had fruitful collaborations with the company over the years. 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.
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Good for him. Hope he gets paid.
I can only imagine how much money he’s going to be making. Even as someone who likes AMD I can see why he would want to go to Intel. His budget and resources should be substantially more than what he’s used to. On the plus side maybe AMD can employ someone who can actually hit performance targets.
“I bet you’re a hoot at parties.” ?
*Hugs
Will you hug me too Russell ?
*kiss
Amd already hired ex intel cpu architects
so it’s an exchange of MVPs? lol
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Sad to see AMD lose such talent, especially considering how much they could use it. Still, the guys gotta look out for himself. Hope he does well, strikes me as a cool dude in all the interviews I’ve seen him in.
what are you talking about he made AMD lose their marketshare and after the failure of fury and vega i was hoping they fire him
i can’t find a replacement for my r9 290 till this day from AMD
Yeah it’s his fault AMD couldn’t hit a release date with a ICBM
“talent” Try and show me where try and show me the last time Amd created a product that was weaker and more expensive i can’t think of one in the past 10 years at least.
Also this guy planned this Kyle from HardOCP leaked this almost a year ago.
What a turn cloak I hope he ends up getting Intel sued..
He would only hold nvidia back lol.
TBH, if Intel were to break into the dGPU space (for consumers) it would provide Nvidia with far better competition than RTG has been able to over the last few years.
Yeah like Nvidia wants a product that consumes almost double the energy(VEGA64 vs 1080) for the same performance.
Vega64 consumes 2x energy compared to 1080 in full load ?
186W vs 362W.
If it’s not double, almost, but anyway…
It actually uses around the same amount of power as 2 1080’s in SLI.
wtf. i thought Vega was supposed to be super good in terms of performances and super good in terms of power consumption.
god damnit amd
Ah, the delicious, salty tears of AMD fanboys, lol.
Why wouldn’t you want AMD to do well? We need competition. You and others like you make no sense.
More money than sense I guess. Genuinely if AMD did well Nvidia would need to find back with lower prices and better hardware!
Why do you think Raja left, genius? To give Nvidia some real competition.
Except Raja is intel mole. He needs to make RTG as a liability in the eyes of AMD.
I was waiting for the AMD fanboy to say he was a Intel mole on a mission to destroy AMD from the inside
And just after they announced the collaboration intel is already upto its tricks and backstabbing AMD!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!
Yeah…no, are you tired? You look tired, go to sleep 🙂
Well, I’m not sure what to make of this right now. Could mean some good things for PC gamers but it could also mean that they only want into the professional card market which generates far, far more profit assuming Intel is willing to spend some of their 30 billion dollar cash hoard to put up a proper company and go after Nvidia’s throat.
Could also just be leverage to work out better terms with AMD on their recently reported collaboration. Hiring Koduri would be cheap if that’s what they are doing.
Speaking of NDA, I wonder about what Koduri could bring to the table at Intel because you can be sure that if he uses anything he developed at AMD or any of their R&D then it will be an expensive lawsuit against Koduri and Intel.
So Intel gonna make GPU! I mean Graphic Card, not like HD Intrigited GPU!! Cool. Wanna see how this work out in future. We need more GPU and CPU manufacturer