Friday, December 14th 2018
AMD Radeon Technology Group, Senior VP and General Manager, Mike Rayfield to Resign
AMD's Radeon Technology Group (RTG) continues to be in a state of flux, with another executive leaving the company. This time, RTG General Manager and Senior Vice President, Mike Rayfield (pictured on the left below) will be resigning by year's end, marking the second time in a calendar year the group has been devoid of a formal leader. Rayfield previously worked for NVIDIA as the General Manager of their Tegra business unit, and was Vice President and General Manager of Micron's mobile storage business unit prior to that. Having served in all these roles for quite some time, it is somewhat of a surprise to see him leaving AMD so quickly, having only just joined the company back in February 2018. With that said, AMD has said the reason for this departure is so that he can "spend more time with his family and pursue his personal passions".
David Wang (picture on the right below), the current Senior Vice President of Engineering at RTG, will be his interim successor. He already has a storied history at AMD, having worked on ATI/AMD graphics cards as a GPU engineer from the R300 to GCN 1.0 in a time period ranging from the years 2000 to 2012. Under AMD's dual leadership model which was implemented after Raja Koduri's resignation, both Wang and Rayfield have worked together leading the RTG group. Thanks to this, the transition of duties should be relatively smooth even though Wang's role is only temporary, and it will be interesting to see whom AMD picks as Rayfield's long-term successor.
Source:
Anandtech
David Wang (picture on the right below), the current Senior Vice President of Engineering at RTG, will be his interim successor. He already has a storied history at AMD, having worked on ATI/AMD graphics cards as a GPU engineer from the R300 to GCN 1.0 in a time period ranging from the years 2000 to 2012. Under AMD's dual leadership model which was implemented after Raja Koduri's resignation, both Wang and Rayfield have worked together leading the RTG group. Thanks to this, the transition of duties should be relatively smooth even though Wang's role is only temporary, and it will be interesting to see whom AMD picks as Rayfield's long-term successor.
32 Comments on AMD Radeon Technology Group, Senior VP and General Manager, Mike Rayfield to Resign
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Large dose of salt required, but funny read.
Well gotta be more to this story that's for sure, hey maybe Wang is not interested who knows.
just saying
Read his profile. www.amd.com/en/corporate/leadership-david-wang
He is pretty much in charge of the engineering now. It may be he can do both if he wants but sometimes he might love pumping out architectures than being a general manager. If he can do both then great but I don't think they should move him from engineering. They actually needed a clean house after the toxic culture Raja had created at RTG. He wanted to bring RTG to intel, he was all intel for a while it seems and that led to some bad moves.why? David Wang was just hired. This is the old crew. Let em go. I am sure Lisa wants a clean house anyways. Looks like bad decisions are leaving RTG. Good riddance. I doubt David Wang leaves anytime soon with a chance to build something new with bigger R&D Budget due to Ryzen success.
I hope they sell the whole damn thing to the lowest bidder and just give up on graphics.
They make damn good CPUs sometimes and buying ATI only RUINED their CPU progress.
Note the power consumption of the RX580. It is rapidly moving the same direction again.