Raja Koduri | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:22:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Raja Koduri | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Raja Koduri is leaving Intel to start his own AI company https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/raja-koduri-is-leaving-intel-to-start-his-own-ai-company/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/raja-koduri-is-leaving-intel-to-start-his-own-ai-company/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:06:39 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=597491 Raja Koduri departed AMD and began working at Intel five years ago, marking the blue team's journey towards releasing discrete graphics products. The Intel Xe GPU architecture is now well established and the groundwork has been laid for future generations of graphics cards. Now, Koduri is departing Intel to start his own company. 

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Raja Koduri departed AMD and began working at Intel five years ago, marking the blue team's journey towards releasing discrete graphics products. The Intel Xe GPU architecture is now well established and the groundwork has been laid for future generations of graphics cards. Now, Koduri is departing Intel to start his own company. 

In an announcement today, Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, confirmed that Raja Koduri is leaving Intel and thanked him for his “many contributions to Intel tech & architecture”, particularly in the high-performance graphics segment.

As you can see above, Koduri confirmed his departure shortly after, adding confirmation that he is forming his own startup company. Rather than hardware, Koduri's attention will now turn to software, with a focus on “generative AI for gaming, media and entertainment”.

Koduri says he will have more information to share in the coming weeks. Intel has yet to name a new Chief Architect.

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KitGuru Says: With AI currently gaining a lot of media attention and investment, Koduri's move to start a new company focused on this area makes sense. AI tools have already aided gamers greatly through features like DLSS and FSR. Hopefully more improvements can come in the future with additional companies looking into technologies that improve performance and visuals. 

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Intel’s Raja Koduri details more about the upcoming Arc GPUs https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/intels-raja-koduri-details-more-about-the-upcoming-arc-gpus/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/intels-raja-koduri-details-more-about-the-upcoming-arc-gpus/#respond Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:13:54 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=535101 As the launch of Intel Arc GPUs comes closer, we're learning more about the upcoming graphics cards. This week, Intel graphics lead, Raja Koduri, revealed more about the Arc GPU architecture, touching on supply, drivers, custom GPUs and crypto mining. 

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As the launch of Intel Arc GPUs comes closer, we're learning more about the upcoming graphics cards. This week, Intel graphics lead, Raja Koduri, revealed more about the Arc GPU architecture, touching on supply, drivers, custom GPUs and crypto mining. 

In an interview with Gadgets360. Raja Koduri and Roger Chandler talked about the upcoming Intel Arc launch. One of the first things to be confirmed is that Intel won't be placing any limitations crypto mining, as this isn't a priority for Intel's first major desktop graphics launch. However, Roger did reveal that reference Arc GPUs have begun going out to board partners so that they can begin working on custom cooling solutions.

Of course, the hardware is just one side of things, Intel also needs to follow up with strong software support and drivers. Similarly to Nvidia and AMD, Intel expects to roll out regular driver updates, with additional optimisations in place for “major titles”.

When it comes to GPU supply, Koduri couldn't make any promises, as the whole industry is in the same boat at the moment when it comes to chip shortages and high demand.

KitGuru says: If Intel's GPUs do end up being good for mining, then the supply and demand situation is going to get tricky, as we've seen with recent GPU launches from Nvidia and AMD. 

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Leo Reacts to Intel Architecture Day 2021 https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/leo-waldock/leo-reacts-to-intel-architecture-day-2021/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/leo-waldock/leo-reacts-to-intel-architecture-day-2021/#respond Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:40:17 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=528497 Intel's Architecture Day 2021 was recently hosted by Raja Koduri and delivered a huge amount of news about both CPUs and GPUs. Here, Leo goes through the announcements and gives his reaction...

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Intel's Architecture Day 2021 was recently hosted by Raja Koduri and delivered a huge amount of news about both CPUs and GPUs, although Intel prefers to call them SoC (System on Chip). The key point that Intel stressed time and again is that Xe HPG, Sapphire Rapids and Ponte Vecchio are all due to launch in the near future while 12th Gen Alder Lake is expected to land in two months' time.

We already knew Alder Lake would combine Performance and Efficient cores but it came as a pleasant surprise to learn the Atom cores will have similar performance to a Skylake core, so even the Efficient cores will be relatively grunty.

Luke wrote up the news about Intel's CPUs which you can read HERE. Perhaps the most important thing we learned today is that Intel Thread Director will allow all the cores in Alder Lake to work simultaneously to maximum effect. It was strongly suggested this feature will work better with Windows 11 than with Windows 10.

Dominic covered the graphics news HERE and we are agreed that Intel has a huge opportunity to sell product, make money and help gamers with new graphics cards, provided they offer reasonable levels of performance.

Sapphire Rapids is a new type of Server chip that promises to leave monolithic Xeons in the dust with a rumoured core count up to 56-cores. The tiled SoC approach includes a number of specialist accelerators and when you add in support for PCIe 5 and DDR5 memory you can see why Intel thinks they will be able to take the fight to AMD EPYC in 2022.

The biggest news – quite literally – falls to Ponte Vecchio which is a colossal graphics SoC that aims to pull Intel into competition with Nvidia and AMD for Compute-on-GPU. This promises to be an even bigger upset than the success of Ryzen and EPYC, and that would be quite something to behold.

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KitGuru says: Intel held back a huge amount of information about these products and did not tell us anything about clock speeds, power draw or pricing, and precious little about delivery dates. We shall watch this space with keen interest. 

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Raja Koduri teases Xe HPG GPU running UL 3DMark Mesh Shader Feature test https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/raja-koduri-teases-xe-hpg-gpu-running-ul-3dmark-mesh-shader-feature-test/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/raja-koduri-teases-xe-hpg-gpu-running-ul-3dmark-mesh-shader-feature-test/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:58:02 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=504218 Raja Koduri, Intel's senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of Architecture, Graphics, and Software, has teased the upcoming Xe HPG gaming GPU on Twitter. The post contains a screenshot of the UL 3DMark Mesh Shader Feature test, showing the “Xe HPG mesh shading in action”. Following the launch of the Xe-LP desktop graphics …

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Raja Koduri, Intel's senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of Architecture, Graphics, and Software, has teased the upcoming Xe HPG gaming GPU on Twitter. The post contains a screenshot of the UL 3DMark Mesh Shader Feature test, showing the “Xe HPG mesh shading in action”.

Following the launch of the Xe-LP desktop graphics cards, Intel is working hard on the upcoming Xe HPG “gaming optimised” GPU architecture. With the Xe HPG architecture, Intel plans to rival AMD and Nvidia in the gaming GPU market with the first dedicated graphics card coming from the company since the Intel 740.

As confirmed by Intel, the Xe HPG gaming GPUs will make use of the Xe HPC's compute efficiency, Xe HP's scalability and Xe LP's graphics efficiency. Besides using GDDR6 memory and ray tracing support, no other specifications have been confirmed yet. Nonetheless, rumours point to Xe HPG GPUs featuring up to 960 EUs with 7680 shading units and 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

The screenshot contained in the tease has been taken from the 3DMark Mesh Shader Feature test, which should be out soon on the 3DMark test suite. As it seems, DirectX12 Ultimate's mesh shading will be supported by the Xe HPG architecture, just like Nvidia Turing, Ampere and AMD RDNA 2.

Intel hasn't revealed the release date of HPG gaming GPUs, but the first graphics cards using this architecture are expected later this year.

KitGuru says: What do you expect from Intel's upcoming gaming graphics cards? How will they stand against the competition? 

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Intel details Xe Graphics architectures, confirms Alder Lake is a hybrid architecture https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/intel-details-xe-graphics-architectures-confirms-alder-lake-is-a-hybrid-architecture/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/intel-details-xe-graphics-architectures-confirms-alder-lake-is-a-hybrid-architecture/#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:23:40 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=481478 Intel Architecture Day 2020 has taken place and just as promised, this year, Raja Koduri took centre stage with discussions on Xe graphics and the several forms it will take - from mobile GPUs, to data centre and of course, gaming.

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During Intel Architecture Day 2020, Raja Koduri and other Intel architects shared interesting new details about what they are working on. We already covered some of the Tiger Lake news, but there's also new interesting on Intel's Alder Lake and Xe-HPG architectures.

Beside the Tiger Lake and Willow Cove core architectures, and SuperFIN and SuperMIM technologies, Raja and the rest also talked about Xe Graphics and Alder Lake architectures, packaging, Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids as data centre architectures and the One API Gold.

Starting with Intel Xe-LP, this low-power microarchitecture targets mobile platforms with its very efficient performance. With up to 96 EUs, asynchronous computing, view instancing, sampler feedback, updated media engine with AV1 and updated display engine, Xe-LP will come with new features such as instant game tuning, capture, and stream-and-image sharpening. Additionally, XE-LP drivers will be improved with DX11 path updates and a revised compiler.

Intel Xe-HP was also mentioned, stating that the first Xe-HP chip “has been powered on and back from the labs”. According to Intel, Xe-HP is the industry's first “multi-tiled, highly scalable, high performance architecture”, making it a data centre-class GPU solution. Featuring one tile, to two or four tiles, Xe-HP chips will work similarly to a multicore GPU. Intel showed a single tile chip handling 10x 4K@60FPS streams and the scalability of Xe-HP architecture across multiple tiles. Intel Xe-HP will be available next year.

The last Xe Graphics architecture is the Xe-HPG featuring hardware ray-tracing and GDDR6 memory. Optimised for gaming, the Xe-HPG will take the performance per watt ratio from Xe-LP, the scalability of Xe-HP, and the frequency optimisation from Xe-HPC. This microarchitecture is expected to be available in 2021.

Regarding Alder Lake, Intel confirmed that its next-generation client platform is a hybrid architecture. Using Golden Cove big cores and Gracemont small cores, Alder Lake will be optimised for “great performance per watt”.

Intel staff also talked about its new hybrid bonding technique as an alternative to the conventional “thermocompression” bonding. Hybrid bonding allows aggressive bump pitches of 10 microns, increasing the interconnect density and bandwidth, and reducing power consumption.

Intel confirmed that Ice Lake will be used on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available later this year. With up to eight memory channels, PCIe Gen4 support, this new technology will be used in IoT and network storage devices. Sapphire Rapids will be Intel's next-gen Xeon Scalable processor architecture, and it will be using a new built-in AI accelerator called Advanced Matrix Extensions and SuperFIN technology. This new architecture will support DDR5, PCIe Gen5, and Compute Express Link 1.1. Sapphire Rapids is expected on H2 2021.

Finally, we have Intel OneAPI Gold, available later this year. OneAPI is a unified programming model that provides a universal developer experience across CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and specialised accelerator architectures. The last OneAPI beta (eighth iteration) was released in July and brought new features with it, including “enhancements for distributed data analytics, rendering performance, profiling, and the video and threading library”.

KitGuru says: Have you watched the Intel Architecture Day 2020 event? What are you most excited about? Will Intel Xe-HPG architecture be able to rival the likes of AMD and Nvidia?

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Intel’s Xe-powered GPUs pictured https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/christopher-nohall/intels-xe-powered-gpus-pictured/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/christopher-nohall/intels-xe-powered-gpus-pictured/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:13:10 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=473704 Intel's chief architect for graphics, Raja Koduri, has published a picture of what appears to be Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs, describing them as a “BFP” – or “big fabulous package”. The upcoming Xe GPUs from Intel are designed to scale from integrated graphics all the way up to the high-end segment. Today Raja Koduri tweeted a …

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Intel's chief architect for graphics, Raja Koduri, has published a picture of what appears to be Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs, describing them as a “BFP” – or “big fabulous package”.

The upcoming Xe GPUs from Intel are designed to scale from integrated graphics all the way up to the high-end segment. Today Raja Koduri tweeted a photo of Intel's Xe chips, appearing to show different members of the Xe GPU family. After examining the size of each chip, the chip in the upper right seems to be a “single-chip”, the chip to the left a “dual-chip” and the chip in the bottom right a “quad-chip”.

Intel's choice to go for a “multi-chip” architecture is expected to be beneficial when used in data centres, thanks to its scalability. However, it's uncertain how well this design will translate to PC graphics market, as it is possible the multi-chip approach will induce higher latency.

The Xe GPUs from Intel are currently still in the test phase and so far Intel hasn't announced a release date for the “big fabulous package”.

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KitGuru says: It's exciting that we will soon have a third player in the graphics scene. What do you think will happen to the graphics market after Intel debuts its Xe GPUs?

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Intel’s Raja Koduri hints at June 2020 release for Xe graphics https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/intels-raja-koduri-hints-at-june-2020-release-for-xe-graphics/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/dominic-moass/intels-raja-koduri-hints-at-june-2020-release-for-xe-graphics/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:29:07 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=428826 There's been a slow and steady trickle of news surrounding Intel's upcoming Xe graphics cards. First, the company hired former AMD employee Raja Koduri, while Nvidia's Tom Peterson also jumped ship last April. In May, we learned that Xe graphics would support ray tracing, and now a tweet by Raja Koduri has hinted at a June …

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There's been a slow and steady trickle of news surrounding Intel's upcoming Xe graphics cards. First, the company hired former AMD employee Raja Koduri, while Nvidia's Tom Peterson also jumped ship last April. In May, we learned that Xe graphics would support ray tracing, and now a tweet by Raja Koduri has hinted at a June 2020 launch for the graphics cards.

As reported by Tom's Hardware, the above tweet from Raja Koduri was posted on Friday, 4th October, with an image of a Tesla Model X. The number plate is what we are interested in, however, with the words ‘THINKXE' used for the plate. Conspicuously, June 2020 is also highlighted on the plate itself, suggesting we may well get our first proper look at the graphics hardware next year.  That would work well with a possible announcement at Computex 2020, though this is of course speculation until anything is confirmed.

Other details around the Xe graphics are currently sparse – we knew as early as June 2018 that Intel was targeting a 2020 release date for its new cards, but as for how well Xe will stack up against the likes of Nvidia or AMD's flagships, we still don't know. As of now, however, it looks like June 2020 is a solid bet for when we can find out more.

KitGuru says: It seems unlikely that Raja Koduri's tweet was an accident or mere coincidence – what do you think about Intel's Xe graphics potentially launching in June next year?

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Intel confirms plans to launch first discrete GPU in 2020 https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/intel-confirms-plans-to-launch-first-discrete-gpu-in-2020/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/intel-confirms-plans-to-launch-first-discrete-gpu-in-2020/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:18:20 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=376737 Last year, it was announced that Raja Koduri would be joining Intel to lead the company's charge into the discrete GPU market. As we already know, you can't just build a brand new graphics chip or architecture over night, but it looks like there is now a timeline in place. This week, it was confirmed …

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Last year, it was announced that Raja Koduri would be joining Intel to lead the company's charge into the discrete GPU market. As we already know, you can't just build a brand new graphics chip or architecture over night, but it looks like there is now a timeline in place. This week, it was confirmed that Intel expects to release its first discrete GPU in 2020.

Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich confirmed this news during an event for analysts last week. MarketWatch points out that 2020's GPU launch will mark the first step in a quest to bring high-performance GPUs to many major markets, including data centre, AI, and of course, gaming.

Intel unfortunately is not ready to detail what performance level or market it is targeting for its first GPU launch. Either way though, a 2020 launch date would be aggressive, particularly since Raja Koduri only joined Intel's Core and Visual Computing Group in December 2017.

With Intel now joining the discrete graphics race, it will be interesting to see how AMD and Nvidia respond, perhaps this will spur up all-time high levels of competition in the space.

KitGuru Says: We still know very little about Intel's first discrete GPU architecture and what it will be capable of. Still, it is an exciting time, and we'll be watching with keen eyes. 

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Two Graphics Industry veterans join AMD to lead Radeon Technologies Group https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/two-graphics-industry-veterans-join-amd-to-lead-radeon-technologies-group/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/two-graphics-industry-veterans-join-amd-to-lead-radeon-technologies-group/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:34:02 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=361855 AMD has filled Raja Koduri's shoes with two industry veterans, Mike Rayfield and David Wang, who will now lead the Radeon Technologies Group.

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Last year shortly after Vega's launch, former Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, decided it was time to take a break and went off on sabbatical. Shortly before he was due to return, he announced that he would actually be leaving AMD behind and instead, moved on to Intel to begin working on graphics for the blue team. Since then, AMD CEO, Lisa Su, has been filling in for him but now, new management has officially been hired.

Yesterday AMD announced that two tech industry veterans would be coming over to manage the Radeon Technologies Group. Mike Rayfield, formerly of Micron Technology, will take on the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of RTG. Meanwhile, David Wang will be rejoining AMD as the Senior Vice President of Engineering at RTG.

Rayfield, who also previously worked as a GM in Nvidia's mobile business unit, will handle the business side of things for AMD's GPU division, meanwhile Wang will be taking charge of the technical side of things, including graphics engineering, architecture, and software development.

Both new members of the RTG team have a wealth of experience. Rayfield was part of the team that created Nvidia's Tegra processors and has 30 years of experience in the industry. Wang has 25 years of experience and prior to working on silicon for Synaptics, he worked at ATI and eventually, AMD, helping create SoC and CPU products.

Here is what AMD CEO, Lisa Su, had to say about the new hirings: “Mike and David are industry leaders who bring proven track records of delivering profitable business growth and leadership product roadmaps. We enter 2018 with incredible momentum for our graphics business based on the full set of GPU products we introduced last year for the consumer, professional, and machine learning markets. Under Mike and David’s leadership, I am confident we will continue to grow the footprint of Radeon across the gaming, immersive, and GPU compute markets.”

KitGuru Says: It looks like AMD has found people to fill Raja's shoes. Hopefully at some point this year, we'll see some new GPU developments from AMD, though for now the only thing we know to expect is 7nm Vega for AI applications.

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Nvidia’s CEO has shared his thoughts on recent Intel and AMD news https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/nvidias-ceo-has-shared-his-thoughts-on-recent-intel-and-amd-news/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/nvidias-ceo-has-shared-his-thoughts-on-recent-intel-and-amd-news/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:47:52 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=353914 Intel and AMD have been dominating the tech news cycle this week. Not only did the two companies announce a collaboration for new Intel laptop processors, but AMD's Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, also announced that he would be jumping to Intel to help lead GPU development there. With two of Nvidia's biggest competitors …

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Intel and AMD have been dominating the tech news cycle this week. Not only did the two companies announce a collaboration for new Intel laptop processors, but AMD's Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, also announced that he would be jumping to Intel to help lead GPU development there. With two of Nvidia's biggest competitors making such huge moves, CEO Jensen Huang couldn't help but share his thoughts on it.

Nvidia held its quarterly earnings report on Thursday night, showing investors results that surpassed expectations. During the call, one financial analyst asked for Huang's opinion on the recent news coming out of AMD and Intel. He first acknowledged that “there's a lot of news out there”, before describing Raja leaving as “a great loss for AMD”.

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Huang also described Raja being picked up by Intel as a recognition “that the GPU is just incredibly, incredibly important”. The thing that specifically targets Nvidia, is the idea of Intel producing its own high-end discrete GPUs, moving away from just focusing on integrated graphics solutions.

As Fortune reports, Huang argued that it would take years for Intel to be succeed in bringing a high-end GPU product to market. “It's an enormous undertaking”, he said, adding that it can take around three years to bring a new design to market.

KitGuru Says: It likely will be a few years before we see a high-end GPU from Intel hit the market, whether it's for workstations, AI, servers or gaming. However, when that time does come, it will be interesting to see how this conversation changes. 

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It’s official, Raja Koduri has moved to Intel to work on discrete graphics https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/its-official-raja-koduri-has-moved-to-intel-to-work-on-discrete-graphics/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/its-official-raja-koduri-has-moved-to-intel-to-work-on-discrete-graphics/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:45:53 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=353717 Raja is heading to Intel to revive the company's discrete GPU ambitions.

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Yesterday, we learned that Raja Koduri would be stepping down as the head of the Radeon Technologies Group and leaving AMD behind. Throughout the day, there was much speculation as to where he would end up next, but for the most part, all signs pointed towards Intel. Now, it's official, Raja Koduri has joined Intel as Chief Architect and will begin working on high-end discrete graphics solutions amongst other things.

Intel confirmed the hiring in a press release late last night. At Intel, Raja Koduri will act as Chief Architect and Senior Vice President to the newly formed ‘Core and Visual Computing Group'. In this position, he will help improve Intel's integrated graphics, while also working on high-end discrete graphics solutions for “a broad range of computing segments”.

Speaking about the move, Koduri said that he is “incredibly excited to join the Intel team and have the opportunity to drive a unified architecture vision”. He officially starts at Intel in December.

Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, Intel’s chief engineering officer, also touched on the company's plans with Koduri at the helm: “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.”

KitGuru Says: This is big news for Intel, especially expanding from integrated graphics to discrete options. It will be exciting to see where this leads over the next few years.

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Raja Koduri officially resigns from AMD and Radeon Technologies Group https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/raja-koduri-officially-resigns-from-amd-and-radeon-technologies-group/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/raja-koduri-officially-resigns-from-amd-and-radeon-technologies-group/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:58:41 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=353597 Shortly after the RX Vega GPU finally hit the market, we learned that Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, would be taking a three month sabbatical. Initially, he was set to return before the end of the year, but just under two months in to his break, Koduri has decided to step down and leave …

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Shortly after the RX Vega GPU finally hit the market, we learned that Radeon Technologies Group head, Raja Koduri, would be taking a three month sabbatical. Initially, he was set to return before the end of the year, but just under two months in to his break, Koduri has decided to step down and leave AMD and RTG behind.

Raja Koduri initially returned to AMD in 2013. Eventually, the folks at AMD spun-off the graphics division into the Radeon Technologies Group and placed him in charge. During this time, we saw an increased focus on quality, timely driver updates. We also saw RTG push to bring new tech to the forefront, like HBM, while exploring new architecture, as we saw with Polaris and Vega.

Here is the internal memo Koduri sent to AMD employees announcing his departure, obtained by Hexus:

“To my AMD family,

Forty is a significant number in history. It is a number representing transition, testing and change. I have just spent forty days away from the office going through such a transition. It was an important time with my family, and it also offered me a rare space for reflection. During this time I have come to the extremely difficult conclusion that it is time for me to leave RTG and AMD.

I have no question in my mind that RTG, and AMD, are marching firmly in the right direction as high-performance computing becomes ever-more-important in every aspect of our lives. I believe wholeheartedly in what we are doing with Vega, Navi and beyond, and I am incredibly proud of how far we have come and where we are going. The whole industry has stood up and taken notice of what we are doing. As I think about how computing will evolve, I feel more and more that I want to pursue my passion beyond hardware and explore driving broader solutions.

I want to thank Lisa and the AET for enabling me to pursue my passion during the last four years at AMD, and especially the last two years with RTG. Lisa has my utmost respect for exhibiting the courage to enable me with RTG, for believing in me and for going out of her way to support me. I would also like to call out Mark Papermaster who brought me into AMD, for his huge passion for technology and for his relentless support through many difficult phases. And of course, I want to thank each and every one of my direct staff and my indirect staff who have worked so hard with me to build what we have now got. I am very proud of the strong leaders we have and I’m fully confident that they can execute on the compelling roadmap ahead.

I will continue to be an ardent fan and user of AMD technologies for both personal and professional use.

As I mentioned, leaving AMD and RTG has been an extremely difficult decision for me. But I felt it is the right one for me personally at this point. Time will tell. I will be following with great interest the progress you will make over the next several years.

On a final note, I have asked a lot of you in the last two years. You’ve always delivered. You’ve made me successful both personally and professionally, for which I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I have these final requests from you as I leave:

. Stay focused on the roadmap!
. Deliver on your commitments!
. Continue the culture of Passion, Persistence and Play!
. Make AMD proud!
. Make me proud!

Yours,
Raja”

AMD has also independently confirmed that Raja Koduri is no longer with the company. During his leave, AMD CEO, Lisa Su, took control of the Radeon Technologies Group. It is unclear at this time whether or not she will remain in charge, or find a replacement to lead the ship.

KitGuru Says: With Raja now out, it will be interesting to see how things progress over at RTG throughout 2018. We know that the company is readying Navi, but one would hope that it won't be set back by the same delays we saw with Vega. The timing on this is particularly interesting, as we learned earlier this week that Intel had tapped RTG to provide on-board graphics for new Core H-series laptop processors. 

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AMD radically changes approach to GPUs: Forms Radeon Technologies Group https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-radically-changes-approach-to-gpus-forms-radeon-technologies-group/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-radically-changes-approach-to-gpus-forms-radeon-technologies-group/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:21:59 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=267079 Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced another round of its reorganization. From now on, all the development of graphics processing technologies, graphics adapters and software will be conducted at the newly established Radeon technologies group. The new unit will be led by Raja Koduri, a legendary developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), and will be …

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Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced another round of its reorganization. From now on, all the development of graphics processing technologies, graphics adapters and software will be conducted at the newly established Radeon technologies group. The new unit will be led by Raja Koduri, a legendary developer of graphics processing units (GPUs), and will be dedicated to graphics.

The Radeon technologies group will be a separate unit within AMD, which will report to Lisa Su, chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices. Raja Koduri will become the senior vice president of AMD as well as the chief architect at the Radeon technologies group. The RTG will complement computer and graphics (CG) business group as well as enterprise, embedded and semi-custom (EESC) business group lead by Jim Anderson and Forrest Norrod, respectively. At present, it is unknown whether Radeon technologies group will report its financial results separately from the two other units, but that is a possibility.

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AMD’s Radeon technologies group will develop GPU architectures, graphics processors, graphics cards and software. In addition, the RTG will deal with relations with independent software vendors (ISVs), industry partners and other parties, which are strategically important to AMD’s graphics business. Raja Koduri will be responsible for all aspects of Radeon technologies group’s business and his strong dedication to computer graphics should play a positive role.

“With the creation of the Radeon Technologies Group we are putting in place a more agile, vertically-integrated graphics organization focused on solidifying our position as the graphics industry leader, recapturing profitable share across traditional graphics markets, and staking leadership positions in new markets such as virtual and augmented reality,” said Lisa Su, chief executive officer of AMD.

The RTG will be focused purely on GPU architectures and discrete graphics adapters, namely Radeon and Fire Pro, which means that the new group will be considerably more agile than AMD’s CG is today in the market of standalone GPUs. The Radeon technologies group will not have to develop accelerated processing units or semi-custom chips for AMD’s CG or EESC divisions, which means stronger dedication to discrete graphics processors.

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While graphics continues to be strategically important for AMD, the RTG will not have to align its roadmaps, strategy or tactics with other units. While deep integration of the former ATI Technologies into AMD was crucial for creation of highly-integrated accelerated processing units, the end result was that AMD simply did not have a business unit strongly dedicated to discrete GPUs.

Advanced Micro Devices desperately wants to fight discrete GPU market share back from Nvidia Corp. and the dedicated unit should help the company to do just that. The new Radeon business group should have all the abilities to respond to market challenges quicker.

The formation of a separate graphics technologies group at AMD is a good sign, but it also means new challenges. For Mr. Koduri the primary task will be to create an entirely new organization within AMD, which will be competitive against Nvidia. Another challenge to Raja Koduri will be to ensure that the new products are released on time starting next year, something that is not easy to do when you do not have that many resources at your disposal.

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Raja Koduri has more than 20 years of hands-on experience advancing computer graphics, from content creation to GPU system architecture and design. Mr. Koduri is responsible for some of ATI Technologies’ and AMD’s most successful graphics products. The engineer was also responsible for development of graphics architectures at Apple between 2009 and 2013.

“AMD is one of the few companies with the engineering talent and IP to make emerging immersive computing opportunities a reality,” said Koduri. “Now, with the Radeon Technologies Group, we have a dedicated team focused on growing our business as we create a unique environment for the best and brightest minds in graphics to be a part of the team re-defining the industry.”

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KitGuru Says: It is great to see that AMD is finally creating a separate division within the company, which will be dedicated to graphics. Only time will tell whether the Radeon Technologies Group will be able to reinvigorate the company’s graphics business, but given the current state of things, it is clear that AMD’s management had to act.

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Richard Huddy rejoins AMD as Gaming Scientist https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/bill-smyth/richard-huddy-rejoins-amd-as-gaming-scientist/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/bill-smyth/richard-huddy-rejoins-amd-as-gaming-scientist/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:22:08 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=196063 There are two ways to look at people who have worked for every major company in a given industry. You can take the view that they have never really settled or you can value the additional experience they have gained by seeing how all the main players operate. News in to KitGuru is that Richard …

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There are two ways to look at people who have worked for every major company in a given industry. You can take the view that they have never really settled or you can value the additional experience they have gained by seeing how all the main players operate. News in to KitGuru is that Richard Huddy, Godfather of DirectX, has returned to AMD. 

Going back one or two generations, working for one company for most of your life was considered the norm.

When you check the sports pages for F1 drivers or international footballers, hardly a day goes buy without someone speculating about a move from one team to another.

While Huddy started life by coming up with the idea of DirectX with a couple of very smart dudes called Doug and Servan at Rendermorphics (subsequently bought by Microsoft), he then spent the best part of the next 20 years with the biggest hardware vendors.

Initially, he was at nVidia, then ATi – which became AMD – and latterly with Intel.

Our guess is that while Intel puts the CPU at the heart of everything and then rolls in some new additions to graphics every couple of years, a true graphics whiz would feel that the GPU should be closer to the centre and that the pace of change should be much quicker.

As we said back in 2011, Huddy's decision to join Intel was a bit of a surprise, because everyone thought he would be back at AMD after a short hiatus. There's no doubt that Intel is in a much stronger position, graphically, than it was 3 years ago, so maybe some Huddy magic rubbed off.

Given his exclusive interview with KitGuru last year about ‘moving beyond DirectX', we reckon that AMD's Mantle initiative would have been a major factor.

Whatever his reason for parting with Intel, Huddy has now officially joined the office of the CTO at AMD and will be working with his old sparing partner Raja Koduri to help shape tomorrow's graphics world.

Lastly, the influence of AMD CSO John Byrne might have been brought to bear, given how strongly he believes that Mantle is part of AMD's leadership in the field of graphics, as he discussed with us last month.

KitGuru says: While Richard says open standards, the move by Microsoft to acknowledge the power of Mantle by stepping up with DirectX 12 is likely to have been a significant factor in Richard's final decision. It's nice to be wanted.

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Apple boots nVidia out: Jobs tells Jen Hsun “No thanks” for 2 years https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/faith/apple-boots-nvidia-out-jobs-tells-jen-hsun-no-thanks-for-2-years/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/faith/apple-boots-nvidia-out-jobs-tells-jen-hsun-no-thanks-for-2-years/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:32 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=10000 Reports coming out of hardcore news sites like Fudzilla earlier today paint a bleak picture for nVidia. Fascinating stuff. But what exactly does it mean for nVidia, what caused it and how long will it last? First, what has Apple chosen and what is Steve Jobs saying? Well, for a start, Apple is saying that …

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Reports coming out of hardcore news sites like Fudzilla earlier today paint a bleak picture for nVidia. Fascinating stuff. But what exactly does it mean for nVidia, what caused it and how long will it last?

First, what has Apple chosen and what is Steve Jobs saying?

Well, for a start, Apple is saying that its customers don't really need PhysX. Apple uses Intel CPUs. Intel owns the Havok physics engine. Havok is, according to Intel's web site, the proven leader across a range of platforms – including Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP and the PC.

Apple is also saying that its customers don't need Cuda. Not surprising. Apple defined the industry standard for this field itself when it created OpenCL. Developing GPGPU solutions etc for ATI Radeon graphics is made easy because there is already a mature SDK for Stream on the web. Might we see significant Snow Leopard improvements here in the future ?

Also, Apple is saying that its customers don't need 3D Vision. Given the multi-screen 3D environments being shown off by Sapphire at Computex 2010, we're not surprised.

Will we be seeing 3D EyeFinity on Apple computers soon?

The major manufacturers talk in terms of design wins. When you go into McDonald's and order a Coke – that's a design win. Pepsi lost. Go into McDonald's and ask for a Pepsi, they will tell you “Sorry, we only serve Coca Cola”. Powerful stuff. The right design wins prevent your opponent from selling – at all. When a product line-up changes quickly, losing is less painful. You know that, soon after, you will have a chance to get back in.

Apple has a really slow product cycle.

Intel began pushing out its latest Core i3/i5/i7 chips a long time ago. Yesterday, the Apple site was finally updated to offer a spread of the new processors. That's a pretty slow roll over. The point? Once you're in at Apple, it takes ages to get you out.

Right now, Apple still maintains a Macintosh page that highlights the fact that (almost) the entire range is powered by nVidia. We've taken a snapshot. Will be interesting to see if/when this changes.

How has this come about? Well the background could be both quick and simple. Two former ATI Chief Technical officers, Raja Koduri and Bob Drebin, left to join Apple. At the time they left AMD, everyone was asking them “So how long until nVidia gets booted out?”. They laughed off these suggestions and said that it was going to be all about “What is the best choice for Apple, without fear or favour”. On 23rd April 2009, Raja left AMD. Four days later, Bob Drebin left. Less than 18 months later, Apple appears to move to a 100% Radeon line up. Pure coincidence.

Bias? What bias?

KitGuru has spoken to industry insiders today and we feel confident in saying that nVidia is out for the next 2 years.

Team GB will be hauling gold in the Olympics before Apple looks to leave AMD and its Radeons

How much of Apple's line up will move across? Well we know that much of Apple's phone-based stuff has been the result of its investment in Power-VR. As Apple moves phone chips into mainstream products like the iPad, there's little reason for that to change. In the laptop and mobile space, if it wants the latest, low-powered graphics technology then there simply isn't an option avaiable from nVidia yet. As for higher-end graphics, it isn't something that Apple really does. Its created a reputation for being ‘good for graphics', without ever really specifying the fastest chips around. The image of a graphics chip at the heart of Apple's home page has been changed to an ATI Radeon. Under the ‘picture paints a thousand words' heading, this is probably all you need to know about Steve Jobs' direction right now.

KitGuru readers have been pinging us with all sorts of useful data. For example, that Apple uses around 12 million graphics chips a year and that, right now, 8 million of those are nVidia. Allowing for stock in the channel, if (you decide how big) there is a 75% movement on the graphics sold over the next 12 months, then that would mean a 6 million unit drop for nVidia and the same gain for AMD. Substantial stuff.

KitGuru says: The UK market for graphic cards is around 800,000 units a year. Moving 6 million units from green to red/green would be like 7.5 countries the size of the UK choosing Radeon. Radical. Let's see if this pans out the way it's being reported. Right now, we're waiting on a strong denial from nVidia HQ if this story is not correct. Whatever we hear, we'll report directly to you dear reader.

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