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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...

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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 s the AXG business unit will cease to exist. This doesn't mean Intel will stop making discrete consumer GPUs, at least with the Battlemage and the Arc B-series launches 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!

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.

After the lackluster launch of Alchemist, it's not surprising that Intel is shaking up it's GPU division to try to improve it's results.
Let's hope the 2nd try is better and provides real competition.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Let's hope the 2nd try is better and provides real competition.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I don’t think their first attempt was all that bad.
I just hope they don’t follow Nvidia and AMD’s stupidity, and instead focus on the mid tier first.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Raja got kicked to the curb by Lisa Su, and the first thing he does after leaving AMD is to start working at Intel. What was Intel actually expecting?

 

[Kacho]

Doubt intel does anything interesting in the space of they're already cleaning house. You’d expect a company entering the GPU space to have a solid vision from the start.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Doubt intel does anything interesting in the space of they're already cleaning house. You’d expect a company entering the GPU space to have a solid vision from the start.

They look like they enjoy AMD's leftovers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Just make an amazing mid-range GPU and you are set. But of course, it seems like this industry cannot affor more than one true provider of actual useful GPU's.

 

[BlackTron]

Doubt intel does anything interesting in the space of they're already cleaning house. You’d expect a company entering the GPU space to have a solid vision from the start.

Intel manages like Microsoft.

 

[demigod]

Raja has been shit since Polaris. Intel was dumb to let him lead. AMD was smart to let him go.

 

[Henry Panic]

Intel had GPUs???????????

 

[Trogdor1123]

For a first go, they seemed pretty decent. They shouldn’t have expected gang buster day 1. That would have been stupid

 

[VolticArchangel]

Raja has been shit since Polaris. Intel was dumb to let him lead. AMD was smart to let him go.

He was shit since before that. Remember cancelling Vega for mid-range Polaris, and then bringing back high end Vega, and extending Polaris mid-range by another iteration and delaying RDNA1, whose mid-range is still stuck at the Polaris 10 perf range, RX 480 > 580 > 5500XT > 6500 (with 4GB less VRAM, and on a 64-bit bus) ? This guy's was and is responsible for mid-range being shit for the past 6 years, and Nvidia getting considerable gains during their arch jump, so much they priced them $100 more.

It was a rollercoaster of shitfuckery in R&D, and Lisa was more than justified in dumping him.

 

[tusharngf]

its not easy to build a GPU from scratch.

 

[Sentenza]

I don’t think their first attempt was all that bad.
I just hope they don’t follow Nvidia and AMD’s stupidity, and instead focus on the mid tier first.

Not like they had anything that allowed them to chase the high tier segment, to begin with.

 

[jigglet]

lol @ the posts in here shitting on this guy's technical skills.

if he got demoted, it has nothing to do with his technical skills. it's solely about his ability to play the political game.