Raja hires the larrabee architect to help him with intel gpu
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It has been several months since Raja Koduri left AMD to work on the new Intel GPU project, which aims to put the company's first graphics cards on the market after many years absent in this market.
Tom Forsyth, Larrabee's father, joins the Intel GPU team led by Raja Koduri
Intel currently only makes integrated GPUs, but the company has decided that it is time to make the leap to graphics card manufacturing to compete with AMD and Nvidia. For this, Intel is making a strong group of Intel GPU, led by Raja Koduri, and now joined by Tom Forsyth, the father of Larrabee, which was the first attempt by Intel to make a graphics processor based on its architecture. x86. Although Larrabee did not achieve his goal and is considered a failure by many, he did make some interesting improvements such as the AVX512 instructions, and is now sold under the Xeon Phi brand.
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Tom Forsyth, who previously worked at Oculus, Valve and 3DLabs, posted on Twitter that he will join Intel in the group led by Koduri, but is still unsure what he will be working on. In Oculus and Valve he worked on virtual reality projects, writing large snippets of Team Fortress 2 VR support for Oculus Rift. Tom could join the Intel GPU team as leader of virtual reality related projects, it is certainly one of Raja's favorite topics to talk about and with a great future projection.
The first Intel graphics cards will go on sale in 2020, there is still a year and a half to go before we see what they are capable of.
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