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
Raja has been quietly working at Intel, hopefully they can make some breakthrough soon, the GPU market need some competent competitor to Nvidia
I am getting myself one in January.
As for Raja; he's still a key in designing compute based hardware. Thats what that whole line of Intel Graphics card is really. It's just derivative from compute hardware that did'nt meet quality guidelines as a compute or professional card. Just like Vega and Instinct or Geforce and Quadro.
On the other hand, Intel might announce they are exiting discrete gaming cards, which would mean you bought an abandonware, not functioning with new games etc...
It's a bit of a blow A770 isn't even on TechPowerUP review charts of RTX 4080, RX 7900 XT - because they only extend down to RTX 3070, RX 6800. I hope it will be included in incoming midrange card reviews.
GTX275 era. It is also not about stupidity but pride.
Huh, it appears they have done it atleast 3 times over the decades, I was only aware of the one I experienced directly on the GTX275 which made me sell it and go back to my 4850.
I use a 3080ti currently btw.
forums.anandtech.com/threads/nvidia-caught-cheating-again-new-aquamark.1154090/
www.se7ensins.com/forums/threads/nvidia-once-again-cheating-benchmarks.1353515/
That said, this is about Intel, and currently ARC doesn't perform well enough to merit it's use in modern games, and doesn't properly support old games... and requires rebar sooo.
I'd be embarrassed to release something as dysfunctional as that and would make an excuse, any excuse, not to release it.
Hope he gets better soon, though. One should still wish people better health regardless, especially at Christmas.
I guess we will find out pretty soon
Personally, I think Raja has done good. He took Intel's GPU efforts from passable IGPs, to full on and competitive world class discrete GPUs. They managed that in the middle of a pandemic and economic recession. And all many of you can do is whine, complain and throw insults?
Sorry folks, but that's a fail for YOU, not Raja and his teams. Take a step back, use your brains from something more than a seat cushion and see reality for what it is! :shadedshu:
Then we have the tin foil hat image quality argument, that apparently started as a "joke", but when people say that later it's usually just to save face. "nvidia did it 20 yers ago! I dun trust em!". There's no image quality difference between the two manufacturers, and anything that would produce image quality savings these days wouldn't give an appreciable performance boost (unless we're talking DLSS vs FSR, which no doubt the goal posts will now be moved to). Which goes to show how little most people understand about how far GPUs have moved in the last 10-20 years. Anisotropic filter cheating isn't what it used to be, and you can't cheat floating point precision in your shaders like you used to, there are hard standards you have to conform to to be DX12 certified. Even then, GPU testing is even MORE rigorous now then it used to be, much more empirical, any image quality difference would be reported far and wide through scientific testing.
Go back under your brigdes.
Forums will see occasional rant`s.
Flamers will flame. They don`t know otherwise.
I need to Haiku this.
If they are not, and this may sound dramatic, then basically every review based upon the FPS unit of measurement (which is literally every review) is worthless. Obviously the average consumer doesn't have the capability to ensure that the frames are equivalent, so if some professional reviewers would tackle this issue, I feel like it would of paramount importance to the entire community going forward.
Reorganisation might bring something good or it is just a must because I don't buy the "he had emergency back surgery on a business trip" story for 1 minute.
But I hope the back problem goes away for him, that's no fun.
How he landed in intel is a mystery to me, he reminds me of those "liquidator CEOs" that corporations on the brink of bankruptcy bring that end up firing everyone, closing everything ti make the company sweeter for a sell/takeover.