Raja Koduri, Intel promotes GPU boss to executive vice president

Raja Kodurithe man who Intel stole from AMD in 2017 when he headed the Radeon Technologies Group to fine-tune the dedicated GPU businesshas been promoted a executive vice president from his previous title of senior vice president. He also remains general manager of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group.

The promotion was not announced by Intel, which merely updated the bio on its site. This change, the result of Koduri’s work in recent years, has resulted in the launch – albeit limited – of the first dedicated GPUs of the Arc family destined for the mobile sector, was reported by The Register that has come into possession of an internal memo.

In the letter, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger praised Koduri by recalling his “many contributions to Intel over the past four years“and explaining that this promotion underscores the criticality of the accelerated computing business as Intel’s growth vector. Koduri’s work goes beyond the realm of GPUs and extends to other types of architectures, the software industry (such as OneAPI), memory and interconnect technologies.

“Although this is the first step on a much longer journey, we let the world know that there is a third player in the high-performance GPU market“Gelsinger wrote in his note. After the mobile GPUs, Intel’s plan is to announce desktop solutions in the second quarter and workstation models in the third quarter.”

Koduri’s work also looks to the world of supercomputers with the accelerator Old Bridge and, recently, also to the sector of blockchain with a dedicated ASIC renamed Bonanza Mine. Intel believes in this project to such an extent that it has set up a dedicated division.

“Under Raja’s leadership, we continue to pursue the multi-generation roadmap of Xe architecture, an essential technology to realize our aspirations to power infrastructure for metaverse and zettascale computing,” Gelsinger added in the memo.

According to The Register, Intel will release data from the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group for the first time next week. In the past, the company estimated revenues of over $ 1 billion from the GPU business for 2022, with the hope of reaching $ 10 billion by 2026.