{"id":15291,"date":"2022-02-20T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/intel-poaches-another-lead-gpu-designer-from-amd\/"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T14:16:38","slug":"intel-poaches-another-lead-gpu-designer-from-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/intel-poaches-another-lead-gpu-designer-from-amd\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel poaches another lead GPU designer from AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a nutshell:<\/strong> Rohit Verma, an AMD veteran SoC architect, has jumped ship back to Intel. In his new role, he\u2019ll be doing the same thing he did at AMD — leading the design process of discrete GPUs. Before his 8-year stint at AMD, Verma spent 15 years with Intel. His LinkedIn page says he was a lead SoC architect during that time. Before that, he worked at National Semiconductor, which no longer exists. <\/p>\n

Verma was AMD\u2019s Lead SoC Architect for discrete GPU SoCs for the past three years, during which he worked on projects for the gaming, cloud gaming, consumer, and workstation market segments. For five years before that, he worked in AMD\u2019s Semi-Custom business unit as a lead architect.<\/p>\n

At Intel, he has joined<\/a> the AXG group, a segment of Intel\u2019s graphics division created by Raja Koduri last year, as the Lead Product Architect of discrete GPU SoCs. “It\u2019s great to be back at Intel and I\u2019m looking forward to working with the team to define and build innovative next generation GPU products!” he wrote on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Verma will probably have a hand in the development of Intel’s Battlemage and Celestial GPUs.<\/p>\n

Intel has a record of poaching senior AMD engineers. In 2017, they recruited<\/a> former head of Radeon Technologies Group Raja Koduri and appointed him Senior Vice President of the Core and Visual Computing Group. He has since led Intel\u2019s development of discrete GPUs and enterprise accelerators.<\/p>\n

A year later, Intel recruited the designer of the Zen architecture, Jim Keller, though he left<\/a> in 2020 after a dispute. From AMD\u2019s marketing team, Intel has hired Chris Hook, Darren McPhee, Damien Triolet, and Heather Lennon.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the nature of competition to try and take each other\u2019s talent, but it\u2019s nonetheless sad for AMD. It might have recently reached<\/a> the same market cap as Intel, but the latter still has significantly more capital with which to invest in employees.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n