Efter över ett halvår av uppskruvade förväntningar lanserade AMD till slut sin nya arkitektur Vega. Först i form av Radeon Vega Frontier Edition för professionella användare och beräkningskortet Radeon Instinct MI25, vilka i augusti fick sällskap av Radeon RX Vega 64 och RX Vega 56.

Direkt efter lanseringen av de två senare grafikkorten blev det tyst från den annars högprofilerade grafikchefen Raja Koduri, vilket fick spekulationerna att gå igång om att han lämnat företaget. Efter ett par veckor bröts tystnaden på Twitter, men han har fortsatt inte synts lika mycket utåt som tidigare.

I ett brev till anställda på grafikavdelningen Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) talar Raja Koduri om den senaste tiden och att han från den 25 september tar tjänstledigt till en ännu icke specificerad dag i december. Detta för att spendera mer tid med familjen efter vad som varit en krävande tid med att ta fram såväl fjolårets arkitektur Polaris som senaste Vega.

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RTG Team,

You haven’t heard from me collectively in a while – a symptom not only of the whirlwind of launching Vega, but simply of the huge number of demands on my time since the formation of RTG. Looking back over this short period, it is an impressive view. We have delivered 6 straight quarters of double-digit growth in graphics, culminating in the launch of Vega and being back in high-performance. What we have done with Vega is unparalleled. We entered the high-end gaming, professional workstation and machine intelligence markets with Vega in a very short period of time. The demand for Vega (and Polaris!) is fantastic, and overall momentum for our graphics is strong.

Incredibly, we as AMD also managed to spectacularly re-enter the high-performance CPU segments this year. We are all exceptionally proud of Ryzen, Epyc and Threadripper. The computing world is not the same anymore and the whole world is cheering for AMD. Congratulations and thanks to those of you in RTG who helped see these products through. The market for high-performance computing is on an explosive growth trajectory driven by machine intelligence, visual cloud, blockchain and other exciting new workloads. Our vision of immersive and instinctive computing is within grasp. As we enter 2018, I will be shifting my focus more toward architecting and realizing this vision and rebalancing my operational responsibilities.

At the beginning of the year I warned that Vega would be hard. At the time, some folks didn’t believe me. Now many of you understand what I said. Vega was indeed hard on many, and my sincere heartfelt thanks to all of you who endured the Vega journey with me. Vega was personally hard on me as well and I used up a lot of family credits during this journey. I have decided to take a time-off in Q4 to spend time with my family. I have been contemplating this for a while now and there was never a good time to do this. Lisa and I agreed that Q4 is better than 2018, before the next wave of product excitement. Lisa will be acting as the leader of RTG during by absence. My sincere thanks to Lisa and rest of AET for supporting me in this decision and agreeing to take on additional workload during my absence.

I am looking to start my time-off on Sept 25th and return in December.

Thank you, all of you, for your unwavering focus, dedication and support over these past months, and for helping us to build something incredible. We are not done yet, and keep the momentum going!

Regards, Raja

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Förklaringen till att tjänstledigheten kommer så tätt inpå lanseringen av Vega är att Raja Koduri i samråd med AMD:s VD Lisa Su beslutat att det är den bästa tidpunkten, innan nästa våg av Radeon-produkter år 2018. Det blir också Lisa Su som tar över ansvaret för RTG under Koduris tjänstledighet.

Källa: PC Perspective