Ah so according to Raja this is the same team that brought Polaris.. So I wonder if Navi will be from the stateside team that built Hawaii/Fiji?
The stateside branch has been disbanded. It was a cost cutting measure. Remember those waves of layoffs at AMD over the years? AMD graphic division was a big target of those layoffs. AMD has moved it's graphic team to shanghai.
Why? Looking at glassdoor, the engineers there only make 20-25k or so annually at AMD Shanghai so it is a huge amount of savings.
It was necessary considering AMD needed to focus on their CPU division and cuts had to come from somewhere.