{"id":25113,"date":"2022-12-21T20:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/intel-executive-raja-koduri-returns-to-chief-architect-role\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:16:57","slug":"intel-executive-raja-koduri-returns-to-chief-architect-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/intel-executive-raja-koduri-returns-to-chief-architect-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel executive Raja Koduri returns to chief architect role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Intel Corp. today announced that Raja Koduri, the head of its AXG graphics card division, will move to the role of chief architect.<\/span><\/p>\n

The change is part of a broader update to the chipmaker\u2019s organizational structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koduri (pictured) joined Intel in 2017 as chief architect after leading Advanced Micro Devices Inc.\u2019s graphics card business. Last year, Koduri left the chief architect role to become the head of a newly formed<\/a> Intel division known as the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, or AXG for short. The division has been leading the chipmaker\u2019s effort to develop standalone graphics processing units.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intel is now reorganizing the teams within AXG to \u201caccelerate and scale their impact and drive go-to-market strategies with a unified voice to customers,\u201d the company stated today. The teams tasked with designing consumer GPUs will move to Intel\u2019s client computing group, which develops chips for use in devices such as laptops. The AXG staffers focused on data center GPUs, in turn, will become part of Intel\u2019s data center and artificial intelligence group.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koduri is returning to the chief architect role to help lead the company\u2019s chip development efforts. \u201cRaja Koduri will return to the Intel Chief Architect role to focus on our growing efforts across CPU, GPU and AI, and accelerating high priority technical programs,\u201d Intel stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intel includes compact integrated GPUs in the central processing units that it offers for consumer devices. However, the company until recently didn\u2019t make standalone graphics cards. This year, Intel introduced two separate lines of standalone graphics cards: one product series is designed for use in consumer devices such as laptops, while the other targets the data center market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Intel\u2019s first three consumer GPUs debuted<\/a> in March under the Arc brand. The chips are designed for use in laptops and include artificial intelligence features that can automatically enhance video games\u2019 graphics. Intel\u2019s consumer GPUs are based on a chip architecture known as Xe HPG.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xe HPG is also the basis of Intel\u2019s first data center graphics card lineup, which debuted<\/a> in August. But Intel\u2019s next data center GPU, Ponte Vecchio, will use a different architecture called Xe HPC. The latter architecture includes additional onboard cache and can more quickly carry out matrix multiplications, a type of mathematical operation that AI models use to process data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intel recently rebranded Ponte Vecchio as the Max Series and announced that the chip will start shipping next year. The chip is set to roll out alongside Sapphire Rapids, the next iteration of Intel\u2019s flagship server CPU lineup, which is also slated to launch in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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