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
“Management “ isn’t the crown of the corporate ladder lol
These places aren’t McDonald’s . I certainly get paid more than managers above me and other principal engineers and architects get massive checks.
The DX and price stuff probably killed the market these GPUs could have been aimed at. I would recommend a $100 Intel GPU to someone who wanted to play old games.
Top end performance historically has only been a small part of the market.
To be honest, I was more than ready to buy one. I couldn't care less that it performs at 2070-2080 level maximum, but the above things broke the deal for me.
I like the seemingly demoted part
He really got promoted because now failure blame is someone else's problem so back to team/ zoom meetings management :laugh:
Personally, lots of the new games are rubbish, we have 16 cores desktop CPUs yet we still don't have a game that comes close to Supreme Commander.
As for e-waste, I have a 10+ years old laptop that still perfect for word processing, Excel, web browsing...etc (a 120gb SSD can bring everything back to life), instead of throwing your old stuff sell or give it away.
Come on, it's a long term project, driver and hardware wise.
I think if you bought an intel GPU, you bought a "promise" too that they'd improve drivers over time, I think they will do that but it will require time.
Otherwise people mentioning Nvidia is cheating on image quality..don't know what to tell you, I mean it's not like we had tools to measure image quality and back up those kind of claims...
Price apart, the 7900XTX is awesome but so is the 4090, no need to use disinformation and lies to justify your preference, period.
I think i owned a i740 graphics card as well, was a good thing for 2D imaging and let the 3D be done by a Voodoo2 in SLI.
But as with most names, brands and cards from that generation most flopped in 3D. 3dfx set the bar and shooked the industry.
Arc is a first release. It will need a few generations to catch up. But eventually they will, such as their drivers and all that.
For people to belittle someone for a medical condition and then criticize them professionally for same is low class, low brow and indicative of a small mind thinking small.