Monday, December 10th 2018
Ex-Hardware.fr GPU Editor Damien Triolet Jumps Ship from AMD RTG to Intel
Oh hey remember this news post from July last year? Damien Triolet's work history off-late has been one of many such recent stories. These tend to begin with AMD, and RTG in particular, getting a cash infusion and growing in 2016 and 2017 to where they hired some of the best engineers and marketing personnel from the industry- media or otherwise. This follows a more stagnant GPU division in 2017-2018, Intel deciding to dip their toes back into the discrete GPU market, and in turn.. persuading many to cross over to the blue side.
According to Damien's LinkedIn and FaceBook profiles, he has started working for Intel from November 26, 2018 in a technical marketing position in their Gaming and Graphics division, a role analogous to his from his days at AMD. Presumably, he joins Raja Koduri and the many others who have followed this exact path of late, and everyone remains curious as to what the finished retail product will be. In the meantime, we here at TechPowerUp wish him the best again for his new venture. We had the pleasure of interacting with Damien on multiple occasions in the past, some as colleagues in the media giving hardware manufacturers a hard time, and others when he was hosting us as an AMD employee. His tenure at Hardware.fr has been inspiring to us, with excellent reviews that no doubt were what caught the eyes of AMD in the first place, and Intel will definitely gain from his presence.
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According to Damien's LinkedIn and FaceBook profiles, he has started working for Intel from November 26, 2018 in a technical marketing position in their Gaming and Graphics division, a role analogous to his from his days at AMD. Presumably, he joins Raja Koduri and the many others who have followed this exact path of late, and everyone remains curious as to what the finished retail product will be. In the meantime, we here at TechPowerUp wish him the best again for his new venture. We had the pleasure of interacting with Damien on multiple occasions in the past, some as colleagues in the media giving hardware manufacturers a hard time, and others when he was hosting us as an AMD employee. His tenure at Hardware.fr has been inspiring to us, with excellent reviews that no doubt were what caught the eyes of AMD in the first place, and Intel will definitely gain from his presence.
41 Comments on Ex-Hardware.fr GPU Editor Damien Triolet Jumps Ship from AMD RTG to Intel
So his job is to lie that intel products are 50% faster for them l33t hardcore Gamerz. huh.
The guy i think he is, will do benchmarks and/or check that the numbers we will see, stand on solid data.
Intel better doesn´t repeat the benchmark disaster with "Principled Technologies".
He is a very respected guy for some reasons.
btw. anything a company is showing with numbers or compairisons is kind of technical marketing
Marketing isn't really what I feel was RTG's strong point at any time.
AMD should have never purchased ATi in the first place as it was doom for the creation spirit from both company. Glad to see AMD returning to its CPU roots and glad to see former ATi backbones getting new opportunity at Intel.
Now we just need David Wang joining Intel to make it perfect. :D
The management teams between ATi and AMD never got along, and infighting not only cost resources, it delayed products. AMD's dream of APUs was technically feasable back in 2008-2009, but it took until early 2011 for the first Llanos to come out. This infighting also lead to restricted budgeting for things like ATi's driver team, which gave AMD one hell of a legacy that to this day it is attempting to overcome. This is despite the fact that ATi's GPU development sucked up so many resources that the CPU division withered on the stalk.
Without ATi and AMD hamstringing each other, AMD would have been able to focus on CPUs rather then getting distracted with GPUs. While its APU division never would have existed, the smaller, leaner, more focused company would have been able to keep releases more on track, rather then losing the steam athlon 64 managed to build up.That!
How i see it one or the other has saved them over the years and at this time it's the CPU side but the GPU side has helped them a bunch of year before now.
If they hadn't picked up ATI all those years back them both might not be around today, or at least sold to a highest bidder.
Instead they used up all the cash in hand all while becoming bigger and adding in more expenses. Now I do believe amd merging with ati is good overall, however the right thing to do was to merge with nvidia as they initially wanted. Nvidia agreed only on the condition that the nvidia CEO would become the new merged companies CEO; which would've been excellent because we now can look at history and see how amd was plagued with years after years of terrible CEOs. While jen hsung huang is honestly nothing short of excellent from a CEO standpoint.
Like hell Intel had already turned the market against them for the most part, they knew they could not do that with the graphics side of stuff so took a risk.
Sure it''s been ruff on them but they are getting back finally.
Best case, they may have done better AND even had more fab options.
Much like Zen arch caught Intel off guard, Intel's Core 2 arch caught AMD off guard. Much like Intel is having their competition issues magnified by their 10nm problems, AMD had to contend with the sudden unexpected performance boost from Intel's Core 2 arch precisely after it had endangered itself financially by buying ATI: both cases with "rotten" timing.