Looking like he's going to wind up at Intel. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59784/raja-koduri-leaves-amd-now-rumored-join-intel/index.html
heh, this will become a nightmare for the research firms. How do you calculate market share for this product ?? GPU is AMD but the product is Intel.
That would mean that the Intel deal was being negotiated by Raja without prior knowledge of the rest of the management, and his resignation was a punishment. Highly unlikely. And why would Lisa Su not like this deal? AMD gets a far better chance at selling Radeon GPUs in the short term with this partnership.I was interested to read Kyle from HardOCP's article on Raja Koduri and RTG. Looks like he might have been right. Lisa Su might have "asked" him to resign.
I am very interested to hear what Lisa Su really thinks about the deal with Intel. It could be that she does not like it but has no choice but continue with the agreement even if she doesn't like it.
That would mean that the Intel deal was being negotiated by Raja without prior knowledge of the rest of the management, and his resignation was a punishment. Highly unlikely. And why would Lisa Su not like this deal? AMD gets a far better chance at selling Radeon GPUs in the short term with this partnership.
Take this down a notch from kyles drama. Not that raja doesnt make drama all over himself. But kyle is a man with temper and the writeup looks like his usual revenge writes.I was interested to read Kyle from HardOCP's article on Raja Koduri and RTG. Looks like he might have been right. Lisa Su might have "asked" him to resign.
I am very interested to hear what Lisa Su really thinks about the deal with Intel. It could be that she does not like it but has no choice but continue with the agreement even if she doesn't like it.
Looking like he's going to wind up at Intel. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59784/raja-koduri-leaves-amd-now-rumored-join-intel/index.html
The basic problem for rtg is the lack of strategic focus imo.
The portfolio is simply to wide the way they do it now. To many dies. To many purposes. To much software to develop.
The ressources is thin all over because of that.
And thats the responsibility of raja.
That would mean that the Intel deal was being negotiated by Raja without prior knowledge of the rest of the management, and his resignation was a punishment. Highly unlikely.
Looks like Raja jumped ship for a big dog too maybe.Agreed, AMD doesn't attract the kind of talent it used to. Everyone I knew working with them up in Austin has moved to Intel or Samsung and have doubled their salaries in the process. AMD is going to need their CPU division to do the heavy lifting for a few more years before they can offer the kind of pay that top tier talent demands.
What really blew my mind is the die size of Vega vs the performance in most games. I think the consensus was that they really did just put gaming as the #2 priority and designed Vega for HPC. Literally no other way to justify the regression in perf/mm^2 vs Polaris, much less vs GP102/GP104.Yeah, this was written on the wall ever since he took that 2 months "vacation". It was probably a soft firing, so that they can restructure internally without causing any sort of conflicts and giving raja time to prepare a statement and lie how its his decision, so everyone wins!
Thing is Vega was an utter failure, I know people will defend it, but its just way too forward thinking, some of it features might not end up being properly utilized or utilized at all for years. Maybe in 2 years time Vega 64 will destroy the 1080ti in every single Vulkan and DX12 game, but by that point it won't matter.
We've seen in Wolfenstein 2 that Vega 64 is faster than the 1080ti when many of its features are properly utilized, but this is just one game out of the hundreds released each year. AMD needed at least 10 AAA games that utilize their technology properly to even stand a small chance.
Vega 56 is faster than the 1080 in Wolfenstein 2, we see the potential, but again the design is way too forward looking and not many developers are going to start over on their engine development to accommodate for AMD's two graphic cards.
So the decisions they've taken have been wrong, they should have focused more on the here and now and less about the future.
Vega consumes too much power, has too many features that are useless for gaming and only useful for pro versions, which is a different market, its bigger, bulkier, etc... than the 1080ti.
The reference AMD design is also crap, crappy ass coolers with high temperatures, high noise, high temperatures. Its not much worse than Nvidia's reference design, but its definitely weaker.
I was interested to read Kyle from HardOCP's article on Raja Koduri and RTG. Looks like he might have been right. Lisa Su might have "asked" him to resign.
I am very interested to hear what Lisa Su really thinks about the deal with Intel. It could be that she does not like it but has no choice but continue with the agreement even if she doesn't like it.
Called it -
Continue the culture of Passion, Persistence and Play!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...course-correction-2017-11-08?siteid=rss&rss=1
"A big part of the success of Ryzen and EPYC processor families was properly setting expectations. By adopting a practice of “under promise and over deliver”, AMD was able to stay under the radar long enough for Intel to not have a runway to react until it was too late. That has never been the style for the Radeon Technologies Group, instead leaning toward an aggressive, outspoken mentality."