Intel draws on AMD again to compete in the world of GPUs

After confirming the arrival times of the graphic solutions Arcin particular the expected desktop solutions expected during Q2 2022, Intel continues its purchasing campaign for strengthen the division that deals with GPU development going, again after the purchase of Wineet Goel, to fish at home AMD.

The Santa Clara house has snatched from rival a “piece grbone”, Rohit Verma. Also in this, as in other cases, we are faced with a returnas Verma was a member of Intel for fifteen years between March 1999 and November 2013.

Verma’s AMD “parenthesis” lasted just over 8 years, with the last three having seen him preside over the office of “Chief SoC Architect“regarding the development of SoC of dedicated GPUs intended for the consumer worldintercepting the desktop, notebook, workstation and even cloud gaming sectors (AMD’s GPUs are used, for example, in Google Stadia).

The transition took place in January, as evidenced by the LinkedIn profile, but the news has only now spread thanks to a post by Verma himself a few days ago. At AMD, the engineer has also worked for the semi-custom business, dealing with all phases of product development, from its technical definition to production.

“great to be back in Intel and I’m looking forward to working with the team to define and build innovative next generation GPUs“, reads the post published by Verma. The return of this engineer seems to be closely linked with the arrival of Pat Gelsinger at Intel as CEO last year.

Gelsinger has repeatedly stated that he will to bring back the “geeks” and the spirit of Intel he knew before his move to EMC in the company ranks, stopping the “brain drain” in place for a few years to make Intel once again a place at the top of the preferences of the best engineers. For this reason, in recent months the action of Gelsinger and his team has focused on bringing back to the company figures who have undoubtedly marked better years than the last five years of the last decade.

Gelsinger and Koduri believe that Verma will be able to make a fundamental contribution to the development of Intel Arc GPUs and to any related solutions such as Falcon Shores, a project that will unite thanks to the technologies of an x86 CPU and a GPU to meet the needs of the HPC world. At the moment, the Intel GPU roadmap includes, in addition to the upcoming Alchemist solutions, three projects called Battlemage (Xe2 HPG) in Celestial (Xe3 HPG) and Druid (Xe Next): who knows if Verma will be able to positively affect the development of some architecture (most likely Celestial and Druid).