Wednesday, December 21st 2022
Intel Reorganises its Graphics Chip Division, Raja Koduri Seemingly Demoted
Big things are afoot at Intel's graphics chip division once again, as the company has just broken up its Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) business unit which will result in some big changes. For starters, Raja Koduri has been—what we can only refer to as—demoted, given he's back to being chief architect rather than being in charge of the AXG business unit. Some of his staff will be moved to other business units inside Intel as the AXG business unit will cease to exist. This doesn't mean Intel will stop making discrete consumer GPUs, with at least the Battlemage/Arc B-series launch still being planned to take place sometime in 2023.
At the same time, it looks like Raja Koduri will be out of action for what is likely to be at least a month since he posted on Twitter that he's had emergency back surgery while on a business trip. How this will affect his transition back to his role as chief architect is anyone's guess at this point in time. However, he will not be focusing solely on GPUs in the future, but the broader range of products that Intel offers—particularly the integration of GPU, CPU and AI architectures at Intel. We've posted an official statement from Intel after the break, which Intel provided to Tom's Hardware. We also wish Raja a speedy recovery!
Sources:
Bloomberg (paywall), Tom's Hardware, Raja Koduri (on Twitter)
At the same time, it looks like Raja Koduri will be out of action for what is likely to be at least a month since he posted on Twitter that he's had emergency back surgery while on a business trip. How this will affect his transition back to his role as chief architect is anyone's guess at this point in time. However, he will not be focusing solely on GPUs in the future, but the broader range of products that Intel offers—particularly the integration of GPU, CPU and AI architectures at Intel. We've posted an official statement from Intel after the break, which Intel provided to Tom's Hardware. We also wish Raja a speedy recovery!
Discrete graphics and accelerated computing are critical growth engines for Intel. With our flagship products now in production, we are evolving our structure to accelerate and scale their impact and drive go-to-market strategies with a unified voice to customers. This includes our consumer graphics teams joining our client computing group, and our accelerated computing teams joining our datacenter and AI group.
In addition, Raja Koduri will return to the Intel Chief Architect role to focus on our growing efforts across CPU, GPU and AI, and accelerating high priority technical programs.
131 Comments on Intel Reorganises its Graphics Chip Division, Raja Koduri Seemingly Demoted
Intel and software/ firmware has always been pretty bad
But Raja well when with asus fried lots of haswell-e and broardwell-e chips and boards and just said it was because of weak chips on ROG forum :laugh:
Can his ego handle it ?
Occupational Hazzard for one who is bending over backwards to Avoid being Butt Shafted for a lacklustre GPU Launch/Product
Given the current state of affairs at AMD, maybe Lisa Su should follow because of the terrible graphics decisions... :rolleyes: Lower market share, dark forecast, bad product lineup, etc...
Nvidia has a lot of experience with optimizations per game, like 15+ years more experience than Intel on that domain.
Secondly, Nvidia uses a lot of power to get those high FPS, it's a power hungry GPU.
I am aware that not everyone is a driver developer, and there are a lot of myths about that kind of thing. But there is no cheating, only lots of power and drivers optimized per game over years of iterations.
As for Intel, it was the first discrete GPU and it shows. I think they will get better over time, not only on the SW side but on the HW side. It's a decent GPU, once you start using 4k resolutions, it's clear that the GPU has performance, is just crippled by the driver CPU overhead, most likely because of HW workarounds and what not.
There is also Larrabee, but it didn't make it.
Yep Raja would never be involved in a forum he couldn't ban people on
He has thin skin :laugh:
Don't really think Nvidia is that stupid.