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
Remember that's how Silicon Valley came into existence.
It's not like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA are the only three places his expertise is valid.
Anyhow, I hope he enjoys his new corner office at AMD.
:D
And who are you again?
Sounds to me you are trying to justify his medicority and so who's the angry 1 here? You ofc mr thick skull.It was the same old shit at AMD with Raja at the helm. I wonder when he will strike out.
How many transistors are in an Arc GPU? About 21.7 billion? Who here has managed 20+ billion of anything? Who here has managed 200+ of anything? Store manager with 2 employees? Part time at a pizza shop?
It's always easy to throw criticisms and insults while standing outside looking in while making zero contribution to anything.
Wow whats with all the 1s who hardly ever write anything are coming out from under their rocks?
We need a new player to help shake up the gpu market. Not this duopoly BS with overpriced AMD and Nvidia.
I'm not sure why you would use "widely accepted", when if you ask 100 tech-savvy or IT or whatever group of people you want, if they think there is a difference in image quality between AMD or NVIDIA, you'll get more NVIDIA votes than AMD and 90+% no difference ones...
Optane was quit too early what a wasted opportunity that was and if they do the same here, people wont invest in first gen Intel products as they might become abandonware quickly.
All they needed to do was loss lead with a very attractive price point as well as wait until drivers were ready so it had a better first impression, but the entire ARC thing smacks of impatience from the top.