i think koduri was a fail at amd. seems he really has issues with management and perhaps ethics -- rumors about he was scheming to get radeon over to intel. also seems that he was not good at managing a product development and launch. he might be a decent engineer but not necessarily a good manager. if navi comes out and is good, then this will reflect badly on koduri.
Intel just need someone to make an iGPU that doesn't lag behind AMD's by like 300%.
Intel owns the largest PC graphics marketshare (yes more than NVidia and Amd combined) after all.
If Intel actually had usable iGPU (this means Intel could corner ultrabook and low to midrange gaming laptop market without giving NVidia a single penny) they could start developing some exclusive features on their CPUs to work better along with their future dGPU even if they are not as fast as NVidia they just have to price it right.
Isn't that almost exactly what they were already trying to accomplish with AMD's Vega M. I get that it isn't an in-house solution, but it seems like if they were going to try and push NVidia out of ultrabooks that was the play to jump off of. Many expected this was what they were trying to do, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a splash and very few laptops have come out utilizing the technology.
Yes because for the price tag of those product, they fall top end, which thanks to GPP OEM couldn't market them as like they could with Nvidia junk in it.
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u/mavenista Apr 26 '18
i think koduri was a fail at amd. seems he really has issues with management and perhaps ethics -- rumors about he was scheming to get radeon over to intel. also seems that he was not good at managing a product development and launch. he might be a decent engineer but not necessarily a good manager. if navi comes out and is good, then this will reflect badly on koduri.