Pat bringing back senior members who he worked with over a decade ago from AMD. Rohit also worked at Intel before moving to AMD it seems when Pat left. So there is signs Intel could get its old mojo back bringing people back who drove Intel innovation. This is going to impact AMD and effect their APU business possibly with companies like Microsoft, Sony and Tesla.
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Rohit Verma jumped ship from AMD to Intel earlier this week. The hiring is a high-profile scalp for Intel, as
Verma had been with AMD through its recent and most transformative period, working as Lead SoC Architect for Discrete GPUs, among other projects. Verma also enjoyed the prestige of being a
Senior Fellow at AMD, where he has worked since 2013. Analyst Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis brought Rohit Verma's significant
career move to our attention.
Before becoming a Senior Fellow and Lead SoC Architect for Discrete GPUs at AMD (3 years, three months), Verma worked as an AMD Fellow and Lead SoC Architect in the Semi-Custom Business Unit (4 years, 11 months). Over his eight years+ total career at AMD, Verma worked on projects covering discrete graphics cards for desktop and laptops and the much broader SoC architecture disciplines involving CPUs, GPUs, fabric, power management, and security."
"Interestingly, Rohit Verma, the new Lead Product Architect - Discrete GPU SoCs at Intel, previously worked at Intel as the Lead SoC Architect 1999 – 2013. Verma’s lengthy 15-year tenure at Intel overlapped current Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s by a considerable number of years. As a reminder, Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979, aged 18, as a Quality Control Technician. When Verma started his career at Intel in 1999, Gelsinger was already comfortable in his role as GM of Intel’s Desktop Products Group and would become Intel’s first-ever Chief Technical Officer in 2001."
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