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Raja Koduri, AMD's Radeon Tech Group Leader, Resigns (anandtech.com)

Posted by msmash on from the musical-chair dept.

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.

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  1. Interesting article by Ecuador · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  2. Re:oh dear. by Humbubba · · Score: 2

    Rumor has it Raja Koduri is defecting to Intel. https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020626/amds-radeon-boss-has-allegedly-defected-to-intel

  3. Re:oh dear. by sexconker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem here is AMD is #winning in the CPU arena, while Raja was #losing as the head of RTG (their GPU side).

    Raja's double failure of Polaris and Vega GPU architectures got him shit canned. He wasn't even present for the launch of Vega, his headline project. Lisa Su suspended him immediately after he returned from that vacation. They called it a 3 month sabbatical. 40 days in and he's officially fired. It's just that his position was high up enough that they're framing it as an amicable break and he was given time to find another job before the shit hit the fan.

    Have you ever heard the phrase "to seek new opportunities"? What do you think it actually means?