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.

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Good

[war4peace]

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.

Re: Good

[darkain]

Exactly this. Intel attempts to take over a market, fails, and then simply partners with the market leader after bowing out of their own product lines. I just witnessed this happen with Intel IoT. They discontinued their entire IoT lines, and are now partnering with Arduino. Now they're doing the same thing with the GPU segment!

Re:Is every single IT person in management in the

[mattr]

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.

I know what they can call it

[Anonymous Coward]

AMD could call the graphics spin off ATI

PRECISELY what I had predicted! IT'S A TRAP!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.)

Re:Is every single IT person in management in the

[The Cynical Critic]

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.