AMD has “no software ecosystem that’s meaningful” without Intel
Intel’s 2019 Investor Meeting this week was chock full of hardware strategy, new CPU roadmaps, and 10nm and 7nm process insights. But it also contained a little shade being thrown over its competition by Raja Koduri, Intel’s systems and graphics architect and senior VP.
While talking about Intel’s new software strategy Koduri took time out to look at what its competition is doing in that field, with very thinly veiled references to both Nvidia and AMD. Without mentioning either by name, but with some very obvious colour palettes used, he referenced what Nvidia is doing around its GPUs, and poured not a little scorn on what his erstwhile employer is doing itself.
He was not always Intel’s Raja Koduri, but once a big noise at AMD, and as such you’d think he would have some very specific insights into the inner workings of the red team. “[AMD] has two architectures," he says, "no memory or interconnect strategy that I know of, and the size of the developer ecosystem is tiny. In fact, without our invaluable software contributions they have no software ecosystem that’s meaningful.”
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