Not that I can find in a Google search. Intel let go 12000 people last year, that probably touched every group. The only group that seemed decimated was IoT.
didn't Intel fire a lot of their IGP people like last year?
Last tweet from Raja should raise a few eyebrows. It's funny how people who threw dirt at him will have to admit he currently has a lot of trust from Intel.Raja has a big challenge ahead of him, but if he succeeds at this very difficult task, then he will have capped off his career with the knowledge of having literally reshaped the computing landscape.
It will be a massive understatement to say that I am beyond excited about my new role at Intel. I haven't yet seen anything written that groks the magnitude of what I am pursuing. The scale of it is not even remotely close to what I was doing before. Will say more when ready!
Looks like he won't be touching Intel's IGP, and may actually be working on something that has little or no overlap with AMDs current offering. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if his presence at Intel HQ may improve cooperation between the two companies, not sever it.
Billions of users today enjoy computing experiences powered by Intel’s leading cores and visual computing IP. Going forward under Koduri’s leadership, the company will unify and expand differentiated IP across computing, graphics, media, imaging and machine intelligence capabilities for the client and data center segments, artificial intelligence, and emerging opportunities like edge computing.
I beg to differ, my money is Intel will be laser focused on compute going forward and the RTG GPUs will continue to fill a gap in their offering. But this is 100% speculation on my part, not informed guess. Take it as an easy challenge to prove the oppositePay attention to the bits in bold. This is a clear indication that Intel won't be buying RTG GPUs for much longer.
For them to develop differentiated IP within a reasonable time frame, they should have done what Apple did to Imagination.https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/raja-koduri-joins-intel/
Pay attention to the bits in bold. This is a clear indication that Intel won't be buying RTG GPUs for much longer.
We have a very strong graphics team and will continue our focus on building great products,” a spokesman said. “We also have industry-leading graphics IP and, if necessary, will vigorously defend it.
This pretty much shows those opinions were completely wrong.
Clearly it was him who decided to switch jobs, Intel offering bigger challenge, pay and whatever. AMD would probably have loved to keep him.
And it also likely shows that Intel considers his skills and talent top notch if they decided to poach exactly him, to head such an ambitious play.
How is intel a "bigger challenge" than AMD? I don't think you are correct here. Recent comments by AMD make it sound like Raja thinks he can get revenge for his firing by going to AMD's biggest competitor.
I don't think Raja read the contracts he signed when he took his job at AMD. That, or he somehow believes intel's massive legal team will protect him. He is wrong.
Intel is further behind in graphics than AMD, so making them industry competitive should be a bigger challenge.
AMDs comments sound more like a warning that they don't want to see GCN designs show up at Intel. But other than having done something as stupid as carrying some actual documented designs, from AMD over to Intel, Raja and Intel have nothing to fear.
Look at recent cases like this Waymo vs Uber, and Zenimax vs Occulus/Carmak. This involve people shady/dumb enough to carry document/SW troves over to the new company.
I doubt we will see a lawsuit here.
You actually believe its as simple as you state here. No documented designs, no documents, no software and presto, no problems.Intel is further behind in graphics than AMD, so making them industry competitive should be a bigger challenge.
AMDs comments sound more like a warning that they don't want to see GCN designs show up at Intel. But other than having done something as stupid as carrying some actual documented designs, from AMD over to Intel, Raja and Intel have nothing to fear.
Look at recent cases like this Waymo vs Uber, and Zenimax vs Occulus/Carmak. This involve people shady/dumb enough to carry document/SW troves over to the new company.
I doubt we will see a lawsuit here.
Non Competes are unenforceable in California.
The graphics market share is quite misleading as you well know. A by product of superior CPU tech. Use that argument on dumber people than populate this forum.Intel has a pretty darn good graphics market share for a company that is supposedly the farthest behind.
It seems like Intel is actually interested in this market.
I can recall many posts along the lines of Intel abandoning it's IGP.
Perhaps Intel knows what it's doing after all?
Non Competes are unenforceable in California.
No, Intel rules the low end as far as I know.The graphics market share is quite misleading as you well know. A by product of superior CPU tech. Use that argument on dumber people than populate this forum.
They are, at present, the furthest behind, barring some hidden tech soon to be revealed.
The IGP might well be dead, at least as we know it. Intel appears to believe that EMIB is the future. If true, integration will be redefined. No more big SOCs.
Do you think this is a sudden [2Q] move. For Intel to be creating a new section and redefining their GPU future should have taken much longer and not a reaction to ZEN. Feelers would have been extended to prospective hires around the same time planning started.I think people are forgetting that AMD sales market share for two last quarters outsold Intel. What will happen if AMD brings higher performance in APUs, than Intel? What will happen when AMD will bring HBM2 APUs to market?
Hiring Raja is answer to this. Intel has highest installed base of GPUs, that are extremely weak, all things considered. AMD has higher performance here, and this is really important selling point in the long run. Do not forget about this.
Did AMD lost talent? Yes, they did. Was Raja fulfilled by working at AMD? To some degree - maybe. If he would be fulfilled in 100% he would stay at AMD.
With this departure whole industry can gain. But claiming that some companies are doomed is just BS.
Intel has a pretty darn good graphics market share for a company that is supposedly the farthest behind.
If you can't beat them, hire them away?? Seems a strange hire though, considering how poorly AMDs gpu division has been performing and Intel's failure at building discrete gpus before. Ultimately I assume they want to get into the lucrative compute business. If successful, it could help keep margins high now that they have more competition in cpus and servers. Really seems like they are late to the party though.
Non Competes make no sense, and should be unenforceable everywhere. That is like signing up (being coerced) to say you can't work after you are let go.
I recall the primary argument about AMD's lackluster performance/failures since RTG have been about resources. That isn't going to be an issue at Intel.