Thursday, April 27th 2023
Intel Announces Deepak Patil as New Leader of GPU Division
Intel has appointed Deepak Patil as the new corporate vice president and general manager of its Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Patil is set to succeed Raja Koduri in this leadership role - company CEO Pat Gelsinger was the first person to announce news (last month) of Koduri's departure from Intel. At the time of his leaving Team Blue, Koduri's official job title was "Executive Vice President and Chief Architect" so the wording of his successor's executive ranking is slightly different. Patil is the current chief technology and strategy officer at the Intel Data Center and AI Group, and was previously senior vice president at Dell APEX USA. He will be taking over directly from interim AXG division leader Jeff McVeigh.
The official Intel statement regarding its new leadership appointment states: "Intel will deliver competitive accelerated computing products and build scalable systems with easy-to-program software on a predictable cadence. Deepak Patil will serve as the CVP and General Manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Deepak recently held the position of DCAI Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Having held senior engineering leadership positions across the high-tech industry, including being a founding member of Microsoft Azure and leading Dell's APEX as-a-service business, he understands the important role that software and open ecosystems play in enabling application developers and service providers to bring innovative solutions to market, at scale."
The statement continues: "His rich systems, software and services experience will build on the deep silicon and graphics architecture and engineering expertise in AXG, to accelerate the growth of Intel's position in the AI, HPC and client graphics markets. Jeff McVeigh will return to leading the Super Compute Group while also helping Deepak ramp in his new role." Intel has implemented several internal restructures in recent times - Koduri's AXG Graphics Unit was a notable example - late last year it was split into two groups. Patil will likely face much scrutiny from peers (and outsiders) as he steers the reformed graphics hardware group, but Intel seems to be committed to the project - reports from earlier this month suggest that Team Blue hasinvested heavily in next generation discrete GPU architectures - Battlemage and Celestial.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The official Intel statement regarding its new leadership appointment states: "Intel will deliver competitive accelerated computing products and build scalable systems with easy-to-program software on a predictable cadence. Deepak Patil will serve as the CVP and General Manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Deepak recently held the position of DCAI Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Having held senior engineering leadership positions across the high-tech industry, including being a founding member of Microsoft Azure and leading Dell's APEX as-a-service business, he understands the important role that software and open ecosystems play in enabling application developers and service providers to bring innovative solutions to market, at scale."
18 Comments on Intel Announces Deepak Patil as New Leader of GPU Division
I am rather skeptical on this, may he pardon me, I wish him only luck for the sake of competition.
Hah, and being at Intel, he should be able to draw a complete diagram of the corporate structure, at least the top three levels, with full job titles of every single person, even if somebody wakes him up in the middle of the night. Nah, that's too much to ask for, let's make it two levels.
Its time for a new Face.
About purely non technical managers:
- They are good at making the employees happy and focusing on social connections.
- They are unable to make any decisions by themselves.
- They are serial meeting spawners, wasting everyone's time and hiding beneath someone else decision.
- They are unable to evaluate the value of experts, so they approve them based on power and influence.
The best managers are those that are able to successfully combine technical and managerial skills. Those who know when they can respond with a decision in 2 seconds or if it's worth a meeting time slot with one or multiple persons to get the right/whole perspective.The key is to find the right balance for each unique situation.
He must be a great team builder. All the best to ya.
AXG needs an engineering guru at the top, not a guy with great "software expertise" at Dell and Microsoft.