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Arguably we haven't yet seen the final outcome of his efforts, given the time frame to release a new card, unless Intel gives up on it.

paulmd 4y ago
raja cannot fail, only be failed. like, the people actually in the room with him don't seem that impressed. see the testimonials about his service at intel from his boss: https://i.imgur.com/hrVfr8G.png https://i.imgur.com/hrVfr8G.png https://i.imgur.com/LTfYvLi.png https://i.imgur.com/LTfYvLi.png list of good things about raja's time here: it has come to an end. also, we are excited to announce our cafeteria "bring your own fruit to work" program will be extended throughout the week. dude was a fuckup at AMD too, and honestly Terascale was a mess in the early days too despite eventually being cleaned up later. Once AMD sidelined Raja onto Vega and refocused onto RDNA, they started succeeding again. And all anyone ever says is "you didn't give him long enough". https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-sony-ps5-navi-affected-vega https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-sony-ps5-navi-affected-vega He's been at Intel for five and a half years, close to 6 years. This is his baby, he ran it start to finish and it's still a mess. He may or may not have been a great engineer (maybe he wasn't the talent on those teams and/or there were more people able to tell him no, or tone it down and work with him to develop his ideas) but either way he rose to the level of his incompetence and finally found someone who wouldn't let him fail upwards in the management track. MLID is MLID but in this same video he basically dropped that his sources are now saying battlemage and celestial are cut down to a single small die for each generation, basically a tech demonstrator to let them keep working on it, and my guess is it's going to have all the fanfare of Cannon Lake or DG1 - these will be buried, they will serve as milestones not serious revenue products. And while druid still is slated for a full launch, that's a long way off (almost 5 years) and one can assume that if the GPU teams don't catch traction, the whole thing is going into the trash can and intel goes back to making display adapters. And none of that is particularly surprising other than, again, that they're even continuing at this at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzV1RS5Oc6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzV1RS5Oc6I having your division broken into two and reorg'd into more successful units with a track record of successful execution and then having (full) revenue release of its products pushed back 5 years (during a company-wide financial crisis) so that the whole thing can be done over by someone more competent is not done lightly, this is really extraordinary, and it's remarkable that the whole thing isn't canceled. frankly it's likely a testimonial to how much of this is Raja's fault that Intel is giving some other people a crack at this. Charlie Demerjian thinks this was an "amicable split", that's not remotely the tenor I get from that newsletter, but Charlie likes ATI, and Raja is an ATI guy. I think it's pretty telling that this dropped exactly 3 months to the day since AXG was broken apart. Raja's most likely been on garden leave for a contractually-mandated 3 months while they try to clean up his mess. Again.
- paulmd 4y ago
  lest we forget ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVzDQtHzqo&t=578s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVzDQtHzqo&t=578s

paulmd 4y ago

raja cannot fail, only be failed. like, the people actually in the room with him don't seem that impressed. see the testimonials about his service at intel from his boss: https://i.imgur.com/hrVfr8G.png https://i.imgur.com/hrVfr8G.png https://i.imgur.com/LTfYvLi.png https://i.imgur.com/LTfYvLi.png list of good things about raja's time here: it has come to an end. also, we are excited to announce our cafeteria "bring your own fruit to work" program will be extended throughout the week. dude was a fuckup at AMD too, and honestly Terascale was a mess in the early days too despite eventually being cleaned up later. Once AMD sidelined Raja onto Vega and refocused onto RDNA, they started succeeding again. And all anyone ever says is "you didn't give him long enough". https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-sony-ps5-navi-affected-vega https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-sony-ps5-navi-affected-vega He's been at Intel for five and a half years, close to 6 years. This is his baby, he ran it start to finish and it's still a mess. He may or may not have been a great engineer (maybe he wasn't the talent on those teams and/or there were more people able to tell him no, or tone it down and work with him to develop his ideas) but either way he rose to the level of his incompetence and finally found someone who wouldn't let him fail upwards in the management track. MLID is MLID but in this same video he basically dropped that his sources are now saying battlemage and celestial are cut down to a single small die for each generation, basically a tech demonstrator to let them keep working on it, and my guess is it's going to have all the fanfare of Cannon Lake or DG1 - these will be buried, they will serve as milestones not serious revenue products. And while druid still is slated for a full launch, that's a long way off (almost 5 years) and one can assume that if the GPU teams don't catch traction, the whole thing is going into the trash can and intel goes back to making display adapters. And none of that is particularly surprising other than, again, that they're even continuing at this at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzV1RS5Oc6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzV1RS5Oc6I having your division broken into two and reorg'd into more successful units with a track record of successful execution and then having (full) revenue release of its products pushed back 5 years (during a company-wide financial crisis) so that the whole thing can be done over by someone more competent is not done lightly, this is really extraordinary, and it's remarkable that the whole thing isn't canceled. frankly it's likely a testimonial to how much of this is Raja's fault that Intel is giving some other people a crack at this. Charlie Demerjian thinks this was an "amicable split", that's not remotely the tenor I get from that newsletter, but Charlie likes ATI, and Raja is an ATI guy. I think it's pretty telling that this dropped exactly 3 months to the day since AXG was broken apart. Raja's most likely been on garden leave for a contractually-mandated 3 months while they try to clean up his mess. Again.

paulmd 4y ago
lest we forget ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVzDQtHzqo&t=578s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVzDQtHzqo&t=578s