Monday, September 25th 2023
Scott Herkelman Announces His Departure from AMD
Scott Herkelman, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit, has announced that he will be leaving AMD at the end of this year. As noted in his Twitter post, he spent last seven years at AMD, and launches three generations of RDNA graphics architectures. Scott Herkelman is a veteran of the industry, and was General Manager for GeForce at NVIDIA back in the day. After briefly switching to a start-up, he then joined AMD back in 2016 as Vice President and General Manager of Graphics Business Unit, the role he held for seven years while becoming Senior Vice President in 2022.
Scott said farewell to his colleagues in a brief Twitter post, and we are are certainly looking forward to see where he will be going next, as Scott is a PC and a gaming industry fan, through and through. Meanwhile, as spotted by Videocardz.com and according to AMD's own website, Jack Huynh will take over at the Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit.
UPDATE: As pointed out by some comments and a couple of readers, Jack Huynh will not replace Scott Herkelman. Jack Huynh replaced Rick Bergman back in April as Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit.
Here is his full Twitter post.
"After seven years at AMD and launching three increasingly competitive generations of RDNA graphics architectures, I have decided to leave AMD at the end of this year.
Godspeed @amdradeon
I will miss every single one of you, fighting shoulder to shoulder in the trenches together, the excitement we shared during new product launches, and the joy of being in the arena for this wonderful, vibrant industry.
May you continue to punch above your weight class and one day… beat the final boss."
Sources:
Scott Herkelman Twitter, Videocardz.com
Scott said farewell to his colleagues in a brief Twitter post, and we are are certainly looking forward to see where he will be going next, as Scott is a PC and a gaming industry fan, through and through. Meanwhile, as spotted by Videocardz.com and according to AMD's own website, Jack Huynh will take over at the Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit.
UPDATE: As pointed out by some comments and a couple of readers, Jack Huynh will not replace Scott Herkelman. Jack Huynh replaced Rick Bergman back in April as Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit.
"After seven years at AMD and launching three increasingly competitive generations of RDNA graphics architectures, I have decided to leave AMD at the end of this year.
Godspeed @amdradeon
I will miss every single one of you, fighting shoulder to shoulder in the trenches together, the excitement we shared during new product launches, and the joy of being in the arena for this wonderful, vibrant industry.
May you continue to punch above your weight class and one day… beat the final boss."
53 Comments on Scott Herkelman Announces His Departure from AMD
There are many factors that could make the prices continue their upward trend; demand for the AI market pushing down the allocation of production capacity for gaming GPUs, lack of competition for TSMC, ASML's monopoly, manufacturing processes that no longer deliver significant advances in relation to rising costs, political tensions, war... but Scott is not one of those factors.
They could have boosted that performance if that was the plan and made themselves worthy of being "almost as expensive as" Nvidia, but instead they're just following Nvidia price tends minus $50-100 in the majority of tiers and slightly more raster with incredibly less RT. Like the cheapest Nvidia card often trashes the most expensive AMD card at RT.
Even Intel, poor plucky Intel late to the party and with drivers just out of the oven, knew they had to show up with good RT. Intel is actually killing the driver game compared to AMD, too. It's sad to see how far behind AMD's fallen. If they didn't have consoles and handhelds, their GPU business would be horrendous and nothing they are broadcasting about the next gen inspires any feeling of excitement or enthusiasm.
Lisa's putting GPU's to the side while she got the CPU ship right made sense at the time. Lisa still putting GPU's to the side looks horrible now from the outside looking in. It leaves us at the mercy of Nvidia and don't they know it. Jensen's loving him some Lisa.
Scott Herkelman was SVP & GM of Graphics Business Unit
Jack Huynh is and was SVP & GM of Computing and Graphics Group
The decision making person is x1000 more important, even then the most talented engineer in the company.
Anyways, the rumours are he is going to Intel, so probably he is going to bring some talented force with him.
Hopefully Intel will become much more competitive with him and especially after the scammer Raja left.
Puke buckets do not suffice. :D I hate it, but I do it too whenever I move on... Though it might be good fun to write such an email the exact opposite way: "Hey guys, it was an absolute disaster working here, with you, in this company, on this assignment, so I'm off. Enjoy your continued misery! Bye"