Intel hires AMD product marketing veteran Chris Hook

[DanceswithUnix]

There have been reports recently, and GPUs take time. The other big AMD names jumping ship can help design GPUs, but need to give input in the design stage - which comes several years before any products ship, and any marketing is needed. Either intel have a purely intel designed GPU ready for market, or intel are happy to waste a couple years of executive salary just to spite a competitor

Intel have graphics compute units, they just don't usually put more than 48 of them in a single package (72 in the fabled GT4, anyone seen one?) so in theory they could brute force the issue by putting lots of slices onto a big lump of silicon with ram and PCIe interfaces. Over time they need to solve any scaling issues anyway, for now they could probably just stuff large caches on the thing.

They can afford it considering how much they like to gouge customers.

Ah but we like it really, don't we?

[Fizzl]

I suspect there was no payoff for these guys.

Vega was late and a little disappointing, Raja Koduri goes to Intel.
Marketing hasn't been all that great either, sounds like they didn't get any bonuses and were encouraged to leave.

[shaithis]

I suspect there was no payoff for these guys.

Vega was late and a little disappointing, Raja Koduri goes to Intel.
Marketing hasn't been all that great either, sounds like they didn't get any bonuses and were encouraged to leave.

or they got poached

[Tabbykatze]

or they got poached

This is more likely because the Vega drop may have been disappointing to gamers because it didn't fire shots across Nvidias bow and simply sailed in their bow wave but it was by no means a success! Sure, the vast majority went to miners but if I was in AMDs shoes or a major shareholder I wouldn't put my nose up at that amount units shifted regardless of the hands they went in. Marketing was fine but the product didn't really hold up too well against the marketing so was it over marketed or under marketed?

It feels more like they were poached, oh to be a fly on Lisas Office wall during that chat!