What simply occurred? Scott Herkelman, head of AMD’s Radeon GPU enterprise, has introduced he might be leaving the corporate on the finish of 2023. Herkelman has spent seven years at Workforce Pink, which he joined after leaving his position as Common Supervisor of GeForce at Nvidia in 2016.
Posting on X, previously Twitter, Herkelman famous that he oversaw the launch of three generations of RNDA graphics architectures at AMD, from RDNA 1 powering the RX 5000-series graphics playing cards in 2019, as much as the latest RDNA 3 used for the RX 7000 sequence that arrived final 12 months.
After seven years at AMD and launching three more and more aggressive generations of RDNA graphics architectures, I’ve determined to depart AMD on the finish of this 12 months.
Godspeed @amdradeon
I’ll miss each single certainly one of you, combating shoulder to shoulder within the trenches…
– Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) September 25, 2023
Herkelman has typically spoken about his former employer in lower than flattering phrases. The Senior Vice President and Common Supervisor of the Graphics Enterprise Unit at AMD just lately slammed Nvidia over its playing cards’ 16-pin connector points and referred to as the corporate out for blaming customers; Nvidia stated they had been improperly plugging within the cables. He did admit, nevertheless, that AMD had thought-about utilizing the 16-pin connector within the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT and that it may seem in future playing cards, probably RDNA 4-based fashions.
Again in 2019, Herkelman stated AMD had tricked Nvidia into overpricing its RTX 2060 Tremendous and 2070 Tremendous playing cards by chopping the beforehand revealed costs of the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, a transfer that Herkelman claimed was pre-planned.
The AMD exec made a refined reference to Workforce Inexperienced in his announcement publish. “Might you proceed to punch above your weight class and at some point… beat the ultimate boss,” he wrote.
Herkelman has not introduced his plans for after 2023. A return to Nvidia appears unlikely – although you’ll be able to by no means make sure about these items. There’s all the time an opportunity he would possibly be a part of Intel to work on Workforce Blue’s subsequent technology of graphics playing cards.
In accordance with stories, AMD has confirmed that Herkelman’s position might be stuffed by Jack Huynh. He was beforehand the senior vp and normal supervisor of the semi-custom group, which included overlaying all features of AMD semi-custom options discovered within the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, and Valve Steam Deck.