Friday, December 20th 2019
Intel Hires Former AMD GPU Silicon Executive
Intel's latest talent acquisition from rival AMD, as it builds a GPU product lineup, is Masooma Bhaiwala. "After 15+ amazing years at AMD, I have decided to take on a different opportunity... It was a truly fun ride, with an incredible team, during which we built some truly cool chips," she wrote in a LinkedIn post. According to her profile, Bhaiwala takes the role of Vice President, discrete GPU SoCs, and works under Intel's Graphics and Throughput Computing Hardware Engineering group headed by Raja Koduri.
Koduri's team has been a glassdoor for former AMD executives and tech-leads. While it has hired engineering talent such as Balaji Kanigicherla, Kalyan Thumaty and Joseph Facca; it has simultaneously lost client-graphics marketing talent, with the likes of Chris Hook, Heather Lennon, and Jon Carvill waltzing out of the company in less than a year of their association. Besides Koduri's Intel's most priced tech talent acquisition is Jim Keller, who is working on a future high-IPC CPU core design for the company. While working for AMD, Keller's "Zen" microarchitecture coupled with CEO Lisa Su's leadership have scripted one of the biggest turnarounds in Silicon Valley.
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Koduri's team has been a glassdoor for former AMD executives and tech-leads. While it has hired engineering talent such as Balaji Kanigicherla, Kalyan Thumaty and Joseph Facca; it has simultaneously lost client-graphics marketing talent, with the likes of Chris Hook, Heather Lennon, and Jon Carvill waltzing out of the company in less than a year of their association. Besides Koduri's Intel's most priced tech talent acquisition is Jim Keller, who is working on a future high-IPC CPU core design for the company. While working for AMD, Keller's "Zen" microarchitecture coupled with CEO Lisa Su's leadership have scripted one of the biggest turnarounds in Silicon Valley.
46 Comments on Intel Hires Former AMD GPU Silicon Executive
It used to be a bit different when I started reading TPU...
www.techpowerup.com/articles/AMD was a large HBM buyer (maybe the largest potentially).
There are ways to secure supply of products that the company needs.
Do you eat at McDonalds' from time to time? Have they ever told you that they can't make a BigMac because some ingredient became expensive lately?
AMD is not a family-run small company. You (many here) cut them way too much slack. Because "they're small", "they don't have money" and basically everyone wants to hurt them.
If they choose to be small, they have to find workarounds to provide quality products.
If they choose to base their product advantage on resources in low supply (HBM, 7nm) they have to secure these resources. It's business.Yeah, whatever you say.
You know... I'm very patient by nature. I'll just wait until Lisa Su moves to Intel or IBM. I can't wait to read comments about her afterwards. :)I don't understand why you keep saying this.
AI is just another application for processors. Intel makes processors. It's the same thing they've been doing for decades.
AMD is doing fine with its current RX 5700 series GPU's. They will continue to make decent cards. The company doesn't revolve around a single person and shouldn't as people come and go from companies all the time.
So Intel is hiring some former staff and even current staff. So what? AMD will find replacements and Intel will find others too.
AMD has had misses, near misses & lot of hot air in between but generally they've competed i.e. made up the numbers in a sparsely populated GPU space.
multi threaded games resolved it up to a point several years later,but that was already pascal era and 290x was already mid-range at best at that time.
It's not racism to think that Raja might have in mind to create a design that would be in it's most part "made in India". If I was in his place and if I could find enough (already proven) talent in Greece, I wouldn't mind to hire them and show to the world what people from my country are capable of doing.
It's not racism to think that Raja might be feeling more comfortably working with people from his country.
On the other hand it is rude and arrogant to insult a person you don't know just so you can feel better about yourself. But know that usually when you are feeling the need to insult others, you are the one with the (major) problem.
Still, I would bet on AMD and more specifically Lisa Su. I think Intel long ago turned the reigns over to bean counters.
AMDs Lisa Su is an engineer, with a list of hardcore engineering awards longer than my arm. Intel is run by finance and marketing artists. Given sufficient time, reality tends to kick perception in the rear, and I think that is exactly what is happening in the AMD vs Intel competition.
I see this as a good move, maybe Intel will make faster headway in delivering whatever they have up their sleeve at the GPU market, but i expect a couple more years on that. I only half expect AMD's "GPU crew" will be a little more forward thinking, a top card would be nice to have but top sales is what matters to shareholders.