Raja Koduri is certainly known to all (or at least most) PurePC readers – after all, he worked for AMD for years, designing, among others, Vega architecture, as well as contributing to the first generation of Navi. Later, quite unexpectedly, Raja left AMD and moved to Intel, where he was tasked with designing a new GPU architecture from scratch, scalable for data centers, gaming graphics cards or integrated graphics systems. Now we have received information that Raja will no longer continue to work at Intel.
Pat Gelsinger announced on his Twitter account that Raja Koduri, who designed the Intel ARC series, will leave the company at the end of the month.
Raja Koduri will be working for Intel on graphics chips
We learned that Raja Koduri will leave Intel from the company’s current CEO, Pat Gelsinger. In a series of short Twitter messages, he announced that both Raja Koduri and Dr. Randhir Thakur (Senior Vice President and President of Intel Foundry Services) will leave the company at the end of this month. The second person mentioned above had a very large contribution to the design and implementation of the strategy known as Intel IDM 2.0 (concerning, among others, plans to create new factories).
On a bittersweet note, saying farewell to @Randhir_Intel and @RajaXgboth leaving Intel at the end of March.
— Pat Gelsinger (@PGelsinger) March 21, 2023
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At the moment, it has not been announced who will replace Raja as Chief Architect in the department dealing with e.g. designing graphic layouts. Raja will also discuss his next stage of development in the coming weeks. It is already confirmed that both Raja Koduri and Dr. Randhir Thakur will work together in a new AI software company focused on gaming and entertainment.
Thank you @RajaXg for your many contributions to Intel tech & architecture-especially w/high-performance graphics that helped bring 3 new product lines to market in ‘22. Wishing you success as you create a new software co. around generative AI for gaming, media & entertainment.
— Pat Gelsinger (@PGelsinger) March 21, 2023
Source: Twitter @Pat Gelsinger (Intel)
