Intel hires a former

Intel has hired Masooma Bhaiwala, a former AMD executive. She will lead Intel's efforts in the discrete GPU segment, the first of which will debut in 2020.

Intel hires another AMD manager to run its discrete GPUs

Masooma Bhaiwala confirmed her position at CRN as VP of Discrete GPU SoCs within Intel's Performance Graphics and Computing Hardware Engineering organization. That organization, in turn, is part of Intel's Architecture, Graphics and Software group led by Raja Koduri, also a former AMD executive.

Koduri teamed up with Intel two years ago to lead the company's discrete graphics division, with the goal of developing a full stack of discrete GPU hardware across all segments.

The position puts her in charge of the company's discrete GPUs from the customer sector to the HPC. Before taking on her current job at Intel, she was corporate vice president of semi-custom SoCs at AMD. Prior to that, she was a senior director of design engineering for 14 years at AMD.

Intel's first discrete graphics chip, DG1, presumably intended for notebooks, completed its power-up and internal testing in the third quarter and is slated for release in 2020. Raja Koduri also unveiled the Foveros-based 7nm GP-GPU in November for high-performance computing, codenamed Ponte Vecchio.

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This is Intel's latest outsourcing. Since AMD, Intel has hired names like Mark Hirsch, Joseph Facca, Balaji Kanigicherla, and Jim Keller. Other changes include Tom Petersen from Nvidia to Intel, while Chris Hook and Heather Lennon left in November. Some of Intel's recent outsourcing outside its graphics division include a Volkswagen VP for Mobileye and, in early December, GlobalFoundries CTO Gary Patton. We will keep you informed.

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