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Raja Koduri, AMD's Radeon Tech Group Leader, Resigns (anandtech.com)
Ryan Smith, writing for AnandTech: On the day following what's perhaps one of the greatest (and oddest) product design wins for AMD's Radeon Technologies Group, a second bit of surprising news is coming out of AMD. Raja Koduri, the Senior VP and Chief Architect of the group, who has been its leader since the RTG was formed two years ago, has announced that he is resigning from the company, effective tomorrow. Word of Raja's resignation originally broke via an internal memo penned by Raja and acquired by Hexus. And while AMD will not confirm the validity of the memo, the company is confirming that Raja has decided to leave the company.
oh dear for amd
Seems like the two announcements came back to back.
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AMD needs to keep up in the cpu market intel sucks with low pci-e / raid keys / slow DMI bus (at least some server boards link in more PCI-E from the CPU to boost PHC io)
Here is an interesting article on what Raja was doing with RTG by HardOCP's Kyle Bennet (even talked about Intel interest in the AMD graphics). Kyle did also predict that Raja would not return when he went into Sabbatical a couple of months ago. The article is from a year and a half ago, so it is not about the current status: Kyle has since written that AMD seems to be on a good track with the internal shuffling and in its best form in years.
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Very interesting his departure just after a announcement of working with Intel on graphics being integrated with Intel CPU's. I definitely think AMD has some bright spots with Ryzen but I also think graphics is going through some growing pains.
I can't find the article now, I believe it was some Seeking Alpha investment nonsense, but I remember reading something in the last couple years about how he was very unhappy at Radeon and there were major flaws with Vega that needed to be smoothed over (heat generation in particular); once Vega was launched he would probably leave due to internal politics.
It seems like it might be a FUD piece but I've been wondering what would happen to him after Vega and now I guess we know.
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AMD could use a new direction. Their hardware's great but I don't know anyone who doesn't have problems with their software unless they only play a few big games (Overwatch / DOTA / COD / CSGO). I'd love to go back to AMD but I don't have time/energy to fiddle with their driver issues. And yeah, I know a lot of that's due to nVidia's shenanigans but knownign that doesn't make my games run better...
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Sorry. Don't care. I've seen too many dead AMD chips over the years. I won't ever trust them for my own needs. They sacrificed reliability for benchmarks. Something I'll just never accept. Give me slow and steady. Life has enough problems already. I don't need hardware problems.
Most dudes just go buy a red corvette and get a mistress.
But okay, Raj, whatever makes ya happy, dude.
Dead AMD chips? I haven't seen failed processors from either Intel or AMD in probably a decade. The only thing that kills them these days is improper installation.
If you won't to go back further Intel's track record for reliability was way worse. That is why you saw a lot of AMD 286 and 386s. Intel had to license the technology from AMD. The two have co-existed from a great deal of time.
If you want to talk about video cards, Radeon is still a hell of a lot better than Intel's graphics offering which is atrocious and buggy as hell.
Working with Intel is *always* a trap.
You didn't want to listen.
Now the exact same shit as always starts.
MS did this too, back in he days. Embrace, extend, extinguish; plus destroy the company by making the key people an offer they couldn't refuse.
Intel always wanted to keep AMD meaningless. That's why they told motherboard vendors back then, that they won't get Intel parts anymore and go bankrupt if they dare to sell even one Athlon motherboard.
And now with the "threat" that is Zen, they are in a corner.
And Sun Tzu taught us to never do that, and always leave a way out. Since somebody who thinks he has nothing to lose, is "invincible".
Overclocking/overvolting will do it. Although, they do have built-in thermal protections to help.
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There are two different sorts of overclocking and overvolting these days. There are the ones that the manufacturers support, so that tinkerers can safely simulated-tinker in a safe little walled garden. And there are the ones that are entirely out of the manufacturers specs. If you go outside of the manufacturers specs, once you break the chip you have only yourself to blame.
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yeah, i buy used chips off ebay and use them until i need more power. i have piles of working cpus laying around from 10-15 yrs ago. reliability is not really an issue for either intel or amd.
i want to use the FOSS linux driver with FOSS "open"cl component. I want to be able to easily select GPU bios profiles and/or settings in the uefi. I want an open, trustable uefi. not a condescending point and click back door. presets for mining algos like cryptonote, dagger hashimoto, etc. right now there is not even a method supported by amd to change clocks and timings on the cards i'm buying. on ubuntu they expect you to use a @#$% closed source driver like it's 1995 which they can't even keep up to date with slow ass ubuntu. have some self respect, ffs! they have their disgusting windows gamer slaveware though. your freaking workstation stuff needs to be FOSS compat too. we're moving to a world where people will be able to print/cnc stuff at home. get on the winning team while you still can.
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