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Radeon Tech Lead Raja Koduri Leaves AMD Permanently
AMD Radeon Chief Architect Raja Koduri announced that he was going on a sabbatical back in September. This was only days after the launch of the much anticipated RX Vega line, which is why the move was baffling. According the the announcement, he was to step down from his role…
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Raja Koduri Goes on Sabbatical–Dr. Lisa Su Steps in
AMD Radeon Chief Architect and Radeon Technologies Senior VP Raja Koduri is taking a sabbatical starting September 25. He is taking a leave of absence and is stepping down as RTG chief for the remainder of Q4 2017. There is expectation that he will be returning sometime in December. Although…
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AMD Announces Polaris and APU Event
Earlier in the month, Nvidia took the first show in the latest round of the GPU wars. Launching the GTX 1080, the green team started off the new generation with their Pascal architecture and 16nm FinFET process. In just over one week, AMD will be striking back with their own…
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AMD Radeon reddit AMA Highlights – Polaris on 14nm
With the reddit AMA now behind us, we can share with you some of the answers that we felt were the highlight of the question period. As expected, AMD was a bit light on details and specifics about Polaris but there were a number of important and new pieces of…
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AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Goes WHQL With 15.12
When AMD launched their new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 3 weeks ago, it was actually using a beta version of the Radeon drivers. Today, AMD has updated Crimson to use official v15.30 WHQL drivers with Crimson v15.12. Along with official WHQL status, the new release also includes a numbers of…
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AMD Tackles Nvidia’s GameWorks with Open Source GPUOpen
While AMD’s graphics hardware has largely remained competitive with rival Nvidia, the software side of things has fallen behind for a while. A large part of this is due to Nvidia’s GameWorks software, a proprietary set of tools that helps developers implement features. While AMD cards can run GameWorks optimization is…
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Private Investment Firm Silver Lake May Take 20% Stake in AMD
Big changes are happening down at AMD with the creation of the new Radeon Technologies Group announced earlier. While such a move will probably pay dividends in the future, it does nothing to solve current issues. In the short-term, AMD looks to be getting a major investor to tide them…
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AMD Silos GPU Business Into Radeon Technologies Group
When a company is in trouble, one of the many steps it can take is to reorganize for better efficiency. For the much-besieged AMD, siloing the relatively more successful GPU business from the CPU division is their latest attempt to return to profitability. Named the Radeon Technologies Group, the new group will be…
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