After Raja Koduri's farewell letter was released, certifying that he is leaving AMD, the first rumors about his future appear, which points to Intel's blue color.
It seemed pretty sung that Raja Koduri would leave Radeon Technologies Group after the clear fiasco of the AMD RX Vega, which was expected to surpass current NVIDIA graphics and compete with Volta. This has not been the case and after Lisa Su took him away with a mandatory vacation, last night Koduri's farewell letter was revealed. It does not end at this point, because rumors have started about which company will hire him and according to wccftech, Intel would be very well positioned.
His role is currently temporarily held by AMD CEO Lisa Su, but it is possible that Mark Durcan will end up being the one to handle the graphics card segment, as he has recently joined the company. This movement, which at first did not quite fit, now it would fit, positioning itself as head of Radeon Technologies Group and would not have been signed for the processor section. Now we need to know what the future of Koduri will be and the arrows point directly to Intel.
This hypothesis could have its logic, if we take into account that a few days ago it was announced that Intel is working on a SiP with AMD graphics and HBM2 memories. Despite the fact that the Vega are a fiasco, his knowledge of the Vega architecture would be highly valued and it could be an opportunity, in addition, that he would end up working on the improvement of Intel's integrated graphics, which, why deny it, they are a chestnut that are used for multimedia and thank you. This information is not reliable, since it is based on rumors and hypotheses to which we cannot give complete truth, but as always, when the river sounds ...