Monday, April 22, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 23/04/2013






Raja Koduri returns to to lead AMD's Visual Computing group
Rory Read and his new management team pretty much cleaned house after taking over at AMD. We've seen a striking number of big names and familiar faces leave the company in the past year and a half. More recently, though, the firm has been hiring new leadership to help complete its hoped-for corporate turnaround. The latest addition to AMD's revamped leadership bench is something of a homecoming: Raja Koduri is back.
Koduri worked at ATI prior to the merger with AMD, and he then rose to become the CTO of the Graphics Product Group at the combined company. Koduri has made a number of noteworthy contributions to real-time graphics over the years. While at S3, he invented the texture compression method that became the DXTC, or DirectX texture compression, standard. At ATI, he was involved in the skunkworks project that devised the original CrossFire scheme —using an external FPGA chip and a pass-through video cable—as a ...
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The TR Podcast 132: BioShock, bundles and big SSDs
The Tech Report Podcast
Date: April 21, 2013
Duration: 1:13:30
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Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Geoff Gasior, and Cyril Kowaliski
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