Mike rayfield also leaves the radeon technologies group

We have been watching the Radeon Technologies Group lose its best human talents for quite a few months, something that started at the end of last year with the announcement of the Raja Koduri brand to Intel. Not a year has passed and AMD is losing Mike Rayfield, one of the two men who should have relaunched it in the graphics sector. Rayfield, senior vice president and general manager of AMD Radeon Technologies Group, will retire at the end of the year, after a thirty-year career that has touched several companies, including Micron and Nvidia.

Mike Rayfield has not lasted a year at the Radeon Technologies Group

Rayfield came to AMD in late January, with the role of responsible for all aspects of graphics business strategy and management, including consumer, professional, and semi-custom products. David Wang, the other half of the duo, will be responsible for these tasks, until a suitable replacement is identified. Until now, David Wang only had the role of senior vice president of engineering, that is, the one that dictates the line of development of hardware and software for graphic products.

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Wang has spoken to the press several times and has appeared at various company events, proving that he holds the reins of the group in his hands. But Rayfield is no longer heard and rumors circulate about his poor contribution and performance in his retirement.

Rayfield didn't do much and was very superficial. Every week, he deleted all emails he couldn't read and never worked on weekends or after 5:00 PM. Pontifically, he did not remember any names of his companions. Rayfield denied Lisa Su that there was a talent problem at the company and that recent talent leaked by AMD was not a problem. He also advanced recommendations that were not feasible such as 'Radeon VII', a Vega 20 consumer card that would cost $ 750 and would hardly compete with Nvidia's GTX 1080 Ti. ”

However, AMD denied all of the above, saying that the choice to leave the company is based on his personal decision to retire and spend more time with his family and has nothing to do with his performance.

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