Restructuring at Intel: Arc Graphics will now be part of Client Computing Group as Raja Koduri becomes Chief Architect once again
Raja recently announced on Twitter that he was going through extensive health problems so this move seems to be designed to reduce the amount of direct engineering burden on him while he goes through the recovery process after his surgery. Knowing full well what our audience will ask keeping mind recent rumors, Intel has confirmed that this is just a restructure and they will remain absolutely committed to Battlemage and Celestial with Raja still being responsible for the overall direction and roadmap of the architectures.
— Raja Koduri (Bali Makaradhwaja) (@RajaXg) December 20, 2022 We were able to get the following quote from the company: Furthermore, Intel is also restructuring the former AXG group by breaking it up into two. While the term AXG was previously used to loosely define the entire team that Raja lead, it will now only be used to describe the supercomputing business with teams led by Jeff McVeigh, Masooma Bhaiwala, Vineet Goel, Jason Gunderson, Anton Kaplanyan, Taher Madraswala, Murali Ramadoss and Brijesh Tripathi. The new AXG will move to be part of the Datacenter and AI (DCAI) Group. The group will be led by Jeff McVeigh, who will report to Sandra Rivera while a search is conducted for a permanent AXG lead. In addition, Raja Koduri will return to the Intel Chief Architect role to focus on our growing efforts across CPU, GPU and AI, and accelerating high priority technical programs. – Intel Spokesperson to Wccftech Meanwhile the Arc Graphics side of things will join the Client Computing Group under the leadership of Lisa Pearce who will report to Michelle Johnston Holthaus. This is, of course, the group that gamers care about and will be the one you should track for Battlemage and Celestial GPUs. As we have already mentioned, Intel has re-confirmed that nothing has changed with regards to their GPU roadmap and this restructure is likely only designed to reduce the workload on Raja Koduri.
