Raja Koduri, former senior vice president of Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, has joined Intel
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AMD’s former graphics chief joins Intel as chief architect

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Former AMD graphics chief Raja Koduri was responsible for helping turn around the company’s position in graphics chips. He resigned last week during a leave of absence and has now been hired as the chief architect at Intel.

This change of jobs is the kind that will raise some eyebrows. Koduri will have similar responsibilities at Intel, as he will be senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing group at the world’s biggest chip maker, which is also the world’s biggest rival for AMD.

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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.