Intel hired another important person from the graphics department of AMD

If you are interested in a large collection of information about Intel graphics cards from the upcoming Arc family, I refer you to the extensive compendium of knowledge that I regularly maintain and update. It shows many signs that Intel takes its adventure on the GPU market seriously, and this confirms the employment of another person from the graphics department of AMD.

Intel hired a longtime specialist from the AMD graphics department

According to a CRN article, Intel hired Vineet Goel, the former vice president of AMD’s GPU Architecture, Graphics, Machine Learning, and Mobile Platform. Will be joined, among others to Raj Koduri, with whom the stealing of graphics engineers from AMD to Intel began a few years ago.

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Goel spent the last five years at AMD and previously was the director of GPU Computing and Adreno Architecture at Qualcomm. At Intel, he will be vice president and general manager of GPU Architecture and IP Engineering.

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His new position at Intel will make him one of the main people responsible for the IP of Xe GPUs. So he will be a decisive person in the company as to what technology and solutions Intel will introduce in its future graphics processors.