Intel will appoint Raja Koduri as executive vice president

Intel finally released the Alchemist (DG2) discrete graphics card of the Intel Arc brand with the Xe-HPG architecture last month.  The first batch of products are for mobile platforms. Only two entry-level products, A350M and A370M will be launched. The remaining three will not be available until early summer this year. Intel won’t launch a version for desktop platforms until the second quarter of 2022, while the workstation version won’t be available until the third quarter of 2022. In addition, Intel will bring Ponte Vecchio for a new generation of accelerated computing platforms.

Intel is advancing its own GPU plans in an orderly manner, and Raja Koduri, its senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of the architecture, graphics, and software division, as the first person in charge, can be said to be the most responsible person. Raja Koduri was the director of the AMD RTG department and chief GPU architect in the past, leading the development of Polaris, Vega, Navi, and other architectures, and left AMD to join Intel at the end of 2017.

According to Theregister, in an internal memo from Intel, Raja Koduri has been promoted to executive vice president. CEO Pat Gelsinger praised Raja Koduri’s numerous contributions to the company over the past four-plus years, citing plans to expand beyond the GPU business into broader architecture, software, storage and interconnect technologies.

Pat Gelsinger said in an internal memo that Intel will become the third player in the field of high-performance GPUs, and the accelerated computing business is very important to Intel, which is an important part of supporting its future growth. Pat Gelsinger praised the current roadmap for GPU iterations as the key to enabling Metaverse and ZettaFLOP-level computing in the future.