After the departure of Raja Koduri, AMD CEO Lisa Su has been leading the division however today AMD appears to have found the new graphics leadership. The company has tapped Mike Rayfield as the senior vice president and general manager and David Wang as senior vice president of engineering for the Radeon Technologies Group.

According to AMD press release, Mike Rayfield comes to AMD from Micron Technologies, where he was senior vice president and general management of the memory mobile business unit. Furthermore he has worked for seven year at NVIDIA, where he was the general manager of that mobile business unit working on the Tegra SoC project.

David Wang has worked in Synaptics, where he was the senior vice president of silicon systems engineering. Furthermore he has worked in ATI as senior director of GPU silicon engineering and corporate vice president of GPU solutions engineering. In addition he has spent some time in LSI Logic, Axil Workstations, SGI, and ArtX. According to AMD, Wang will handle "all aspects of graphics engineering, including the technical strategy, architecture, hardware, and software for AMD graphics products and technologies."

Since the silicon design and production is a a very long process, we will see during next years the the impact that Rayfield and Wang have on the direction of the Radeon Technologies Group.



Source: Globenewswire