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Intel Recruits AMD RTG Exec Raja Koduri To Head New Visual Computing Group (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Intel just announced that former AMD Radeon Technologies Group SVP, Raja Koduri, would be joining its team to head up a newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, and as a general manager of a new initiative to drive edge and client visual computing solutions. With Koduri's help, Intel plans to unify and expand its IP across multiple segments including core computing, graphics, media, imaging and machine learning capabilities for the client and data center segments, artificial intelligence, and emerging opportunities. Intel also explicitly stated that it would also expand its strategy to develop and deliver high-end, discrete graphics solutions. This announcement also comes just after Intel revealed it would be employing AMD's Vega GPU architecture in a new mobile processor that will drive high-end graphics performance into smaller, slimmer, and sleeker mobile form factors. With AMD essentially spinning the Radeon Technologies Group into its own entity, Intel now leveraging AMD graphics technology, and a top-level executive like Koduri responsible for said graphics tech switching teams, we have to wonder how the relationship between Intel and AMD's RTG with evolve.
This oughta be interesting.
I don't think Intel wants to get into the end-user discrete GPUs. Rather they want a piece of the computing and deep learning market that nVidia started dominating as of late.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Lawsuit pending in 3..2..
..... a fucking Indian ???
Serious question. Every second name here seems to be "Sanjeet".
The goal of this report is to make the existence of Intel CPU backdoors a common knowledge and provide information on backdoor removal.
What we know about Intel CPU backdoors so far:
TL;DR version
Your Intel CPU and Chipset is running a backdoor as we speak.
The backdoor hardware is in the CPU/Bridge, and the backdoor firmware (Intel Management Engine) is in the chipset flash memory.
30C3 Intel ME live hack:
@21m43s, keystrokes leaked from Intel ME above the OS, wireshark failed to detect packets.
[Video Link] 30C3: Persistent, Stealthy, Remote-controlled Dedicated Hardware Malware
[Quotes] Vortrag:
"DAGGER exploits Intel's Manageability Engine (ME), that executes firmware code such as Intel's Active Management Technology (iAMT), as well as its OOB network channel."
"the ME provides a perfect environment for undetectable sensitive data leakage on behalf of the attacker. Our presentation consists of three parts. The first part addresses how to find valuable data in the main memory of the host. The second part exploits the ME's OOB network channel to exfiltrate captured data to an external platform and to inject new attack code to target other interesting data structures available in the host runtime memory. The last part deals with the implementation of a covert network channel based on JitterBug."
"We have recently improved DAGGER's capabilites to include support for 64-bit operating systems and a stealthy update mechanism to download new attack code."
"To be more precise, we show how to conduct a DMA attack using Intel's Manageability Engine (ME)."
"We can permanently monitor the keyboard buffer on both operating system targets."
Backdoor removal:
The backdoor firmware can be removed by following this guide using the me_cleaner script.
Removal requires a Raspberry Pi (with GPIO pins) and a SOIC clip.
Decoding Intel backdoors:
The situation is out of control and the Libreboot/Coreboot community is looking for BIOS/Firmware experts to help with the Intel ME decoding effort.
If you are skilled in these areas, download Intel ME firmwares from this collection and have a go at them, beware Intel is using a lot of counter measures to prevent their backdoors from being decoded (explained below).
Useful links:
The Intel ME subsystem can take over your machine, can't be audited
REcon 2014 - Intel Management Engine Secrets
Untrusting the CPU (33c3)
Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
30C3 To Protect And Infect - The militarization of the Internet
30c3: To Protect And Infect Part 2 - Mass Surveillance Tools & Software
1. Introduction, what is Intel ME
Short version, from Intel staff:
Re: What Intel CPUs lack Intel ME secondary processor?
Amy_Intel Feb 8, 2016 9:27 AM
The Management Engine (ME) is an isolated and protected coprocessor, embedded as a non-optional part in all current Intel chipsets, I even checked with t
Of course. This is what happens when you predominantly hire cheap workers from abroad. They rise through the ranks, eventually take over the company (because there is basically no domestic people to compete for the positions, since such doesn't get hired). Then it's only a matter of time until it's an Indian, Chinese or whatever company.
What do you expect when you fail to promote intellectual achievement and instead promote thug culture, fundamentalist anti-evolution schools and finally a thuggish president? It isn't a problem that the person's name is Indian. Rather it indicates that less of the families who don't have Indian names worked on educating their kids. You want a football culture, you got it. Personally, you bigotted oaf.
AMD could call the graphics spin off ATI
Companies like Infosys have been sued for refusing to hire non-Indians. Why study IT as an American when you will just be undercut by a cheap Indian H1B worker? Cancel the H1B system and you will see more Americans in tech, simple.
When you outsource your whole IT department early last decade all you find are Indians to promote. Especially true due to a lack of American talent as the previous ones became truck drivers before they could be promoted.
It's really bad in Silicon Valley. After an IPO the white Americans leave for another startup to cash up and cheap outsourced Indians come in to replace them. Look at the bugs in Windows, Oracle, VMWARE workstation after large numbers of developers have been replaced with cheaper alternatives
http://saveie6.com/
Only a few stories down, I said how this whole thing is a huge trap! Just like every time before. Because that's how Intel is.
I literally talked about how Intel will hire away key people at AMD, to keep it small, [just sheer of killing the company].
And how it's the same tactic that Microsoft is so infamous for. (Among several others.)
The GPU integration thing is just the first step in Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.
This is for step 2 (he will do the extending) and step 3, when Intel will have made its "own" Radeon GPUs, right before telling AMD to fuck off and die.
It will not have any benefits for AMD. Only that nobody will buy Zen CPUs anymore. (Together with a few other factors, like Intel keeping its prices temporarily low.)
when you will just be undercut by a cheap Indian H1B worker?.
Well, you know. Maybe you could try to live earning less... and you would be competitive again! I know, I know... such revolutionary concept.
It's all fault of the so called free market. Americans like free markets don't they? I mean, it's a very capitalist concept. Must be good then right?
Look at the bugs in Windows, Oracle, VMWARE workstation after large numbers of developers have been replaced with cheaper alternatives
Yeah, because DOS era software didn't have any bugs. Alas, DOS itself was binary perfection.
Pfff.
I can hear the Intel executives talking.
"AMD has had its failure in the graphics chip market, and we did not. We cannot be left behind on this one!"
"We must have our own failure !"
Will they call the new graphic chip i740 ?
while openly promoting willful stupidity as "the American way".
And now you bitch about there only being morons in your cuntry?
CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER. Boo-hoo.
Have fun with your TrumpHillary and dirty-ass pollution-ruined ex-nature, and demolition of human/worker rights, lack of research and education!
I'll be preparing the "Welcome to the third world!" banner.
I'm just sad for those Americans, who weren't retarded, but were simply overridden by the masses of stupid. And for the rest of the world, which inevitably will have to suffer from this.
Those are some pretty heavy handed generalizations you're making there... Being a bigoted oaf in response to a bigoted oaf really doesn't do much other than make yourself look just as bad as them.
Mind you, I'm not American so I have no stake in this personally, but in my experience this generalization really doesn't apply white people who work in the tech sector and at least on the executive level whites still hold about 70% of positions (which incidentally is almost the percentage of whites in the U.S population). As for other groups asians do hold a disproportionately large percentage of tech sector executive positions (about 20% for about 5% of the population) while the remaining 10% is shared by blacks and hispanics+lationos (about 13 and 16% of the population respectively).
Won't speculate as to the reasons why, but your bigoted generalization really doesn't seem to hold any water.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
Why not increase the H1B wages? If the solution was to lower wages, man... there's people in India/Africa living with less that $10 a week. Now that's revolutionary, isn't it? We are all poor, sorted.
That guy failed to produce stuffs that he promised he would produced while being employed by AMD and he blamed AMD for not giving him the budget he needed
Intel hires him --- and this time the guy should stop blaming his employer for not giving him necessary resources
See how much he would contribute to Intel ... time will tell
Sorry, but no American is going to take on an IT degree, then work for less than minimum wage in this economy.
H1B farms can do it because they're exploiting their workers and charging pennies on the dollar for cheap, substandard laborers.
Pretty much EVERY outsourcing company I've run into is full of facile, generic "technicians" who can regurgitate a textbook to you, but are completely helpless (and abusive) when delving into more esoteric sections of the tech they're supposed to know. On top of that, they need someone who ISN'T an H1B riding herd over them or they can't be bothered to summon their crappy semblance of a work ethic.
Not to mention the fact that 90% of them ar completely and utterly unintelligible when attempting to speak English. And I'm not simply talking about "accent". Most of these people have a BARE command of the language and no command of proper elocution. And, on top of that, they were never taught how to EFFECTIVELY communicate with clients.
The sooner the H1B program is kiboshed, or at least SEVERELY curtailed, the better.
If that drives IT jobs overseas, fine. They can live or die overseas without the benefit of protections built into the US legal system.
I thought AMD just made chips, are they into space exploration now? :D
The grandparent is most likely from Europe, where there aren't many in management. Thus the incredulity.
Ooops.
Those are some pretty heavy handed generalizations you're making there... Being a bigoted oaf in response to a bigoted oaf really doesn't do much other than make yourself look just as bad as them.
Is your response really, "you aren't properly representing bigots"?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Usually at these levels people are forbidden from working for a direct competitor for up to 5 years. Possibly AMD agreed not to sue Intel for poaching in exchange for Intel using AMD graphics chips in their APUs.
then work for less than minimum wage in this economy.
While many H1-B are paid less than the typical citizen working the same job, in no way are they working below minimum wage. That is an incredible exaggeration.
Some are paid higher and are sought after by name. The two H1-B people in my organization are of this kind (although in one case I would say he's better at executive BS than his ostensible job, but that has *nothing* to do with his immigration status because there are plenty of citizens who are pretty much in the same boat, it's just that executives are easily fooled by BSing about.
I suspect that's more the 'continuous release with no maintenance branch' mentality taking hold.
I would even say in my experience is more the fault of spoiled developers who aren't forced to do things they find boring, like maintenance releases of 'old' software, or waiting to deliver some feature they are really excited about and dealing with QA that says it's not ready.
I can't speak to vmware or oracle products, but Windows is certainly full steam ahead on this.
Yeah, that must be it, because Americans are never racist towards Indian people...
Because you're not hiring Americans, and making it difficult for them to get jobs
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
You fucking idiots
It's more like when you break down the family and make everyone a ward of the state.
Weren't you people supposed to move to Canada? Why haven't you left yet? Go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
...just let Intel recruit him!
GOOD LUCK with that rapist harasser..
Intel graphics sux... we all know that. But now we will get used to Intel chips being really good in graphics... and in a year or two when you will be buying your next Intel CPU you won't bother to ask (as an average customer) if it is AMD chip on the die or Intel's own... and I bet it will soon be again Intel.
Double hit - get the quick GPU reputation fix thanks to AMD and ready own GPU (to replace AMD in the future) by stealing top engineer from AMD. Not a good move for AMD! IMO earning few bucks from Intel will come too costly for AMD.
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.