Raja Koduri, during a presentation of Intel charges against AMD and NVIDIA
During an Intel presentation, Raja Koduri takes the opportunity to charge against AMD, for which I work and also throws some taunts against NVIDIA.
Raja Koduri was once the head of the Radeon Technology Group division. After going around for months, I announce the AMD Radeon RX Vega. Shortly after, in the summer, he announced that he would take some time off, which sparked the rumors. Those rumors indicated that he would leave AMD to go to Intel. It was in November of that year when he announced that he had left AMD to take over the development of Intel graphics. He's been silent for a long time, but he's been cracking down on the company I work for for some time.
Koduri charges to death against AMD
About his old company he has said that "it has two architectures", without specifying much more. He also highlights that “I have no memory of interconnection strategies and the size of the development ecosystem is very small. In fact, without our valuable software contributions, they don't have any significant software ecosystem. "
A hard blow that did not go unnoticed by what was once his home. Clearly, Koduri's departure from AMD was not as friendly as it was led to believe at the time. But it is no less curious that he has forgotten everything related to the Infinity Fabric system and not about the Radeon Instinct. Notably, as AMD's chief architect, Koduri spoke of Infinity Fabric as a great interconnect system.
"Infinity Fabric allows us to put different engines together on one silicon much easier than before," he said when he was working at AMD. “Plus it allows for some very low latency interconnects and some bandwidth. This is very important to link our different IP addresses efficiently and quickly. It forms the basis of all our future ASIC designs ”
Shooting left and right
In a comparison slide, we can see how Intel has a more significant competition with NVIDIA (on the left). We can see how AMD (on the right) is a smaller and 'insignificant' point. Something that is intuited because the one on the left seems to have a green outer border and the other in red. An image that also does not show information on the increase in the presence of its competitor in the Data Center market.
Not only that, he has also talked about the Intel software ecosystem, noting that it is fascinating. The company seems to battle on four fronts, such as processors, graphics, Artificial Intelligence and FPGAs. The company is working on unifying an API for developers to use Intel software to create products and solutions.
Intel's idea seems to be to create a simple ecosystem for software developers based on their hardware. "We have to have a developer experience," says Koduri. "Today we sometimes make working with Intel like working with ten different companies"
'oneAPI' is a project that seeks to create a unique and simple solution for developers. Not only that, they also want it to be an open solution, mimicking AMD's software strategy. They are also looking to compete with NVIDIA with a different strategy, as NVIDIA's software is not open source. "We are committed to open standards," explains Koduri. “Open to all and Intel has the best open source practices in the industry. We are the number one contributor to the Linux kernel "
Source: PCGN
