AMD celebrates a year of its revamped Radeon Technologies Group

A year ago, Advanced Micro Devices reorganized its processor and graphics businesses by creating a stand-alone Radeon Technologies Group to handle all of the design, marketing, and other tasks for its graphics division.

It launched a series of Radeon graphics cards, formed a bunch of virtual reality alliances, and revamped its graphics architecture with the unveiling of its Polaris designs and a new manufacturing technology. And the company is stepping back to look at how much progress it has made today.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.