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I don’t think this was all about money. Raja had been trying to run Radeon Technologies Group like an independent company and pushing for separation from AMD fo

by eksu 9y ago

I don’t think this was all about money. Raja had been trying to run Radeon Technologies Group like an independent company and pushing for separation from AMD for a while. HardOCP did a good piece on this -> https://hardocp.com/article/2016/05/27/from_ati_to_amd_back_journey_in_futility https://hardocp.com/article/2016/05/27/from_ati_to_amd_back_... I think the recent Intel + AMD custom chip was probably the last thing Raja did before he got pulled RTG got the reins put back on and now he’s hoping ship to peruse what he’s wanted all along. To work with more independence.

Terribledactyl 9y ago
What leads you to think Intel will give him more autonomy? Or is their integrated graphics team setup differently than Radeon? I would suspect the old ATI boundaries after 11 years would still be stronger than something Intel has homegrown over the past 20.
- 0xbear 9y ago
  Well, he wouldn’t go there if Intel wouldn’t give him what he wanted, whatever that might be.
  - MengerSponge 9y ago
    And if it's not corporate structure, maybe it's a boat. More power to him.
burnte 9y ago
Taking the GPU unit independent was never going to happen. The entire point of the ATI acquisition was to create the APUs that AMD has made for years, as well as get ahold of that great gaming market profit.