AMD Radeon head Scott Herkelman departs from corporation after seven years

What just took place? Scott Herkelman, head of AMD's Radeon GPU business, has announced he can be leaving the enterprise on the give up of 2023. Herkelman has spent seven years at Team Red, which he joined after leaving his function as General Manager of GeForce at Nvidia in 2016.

Posting on X, previously Twitter, Herkelman noted that he oversaw the launch of three generations of RNDA pix architectures at AMD, from RDNA 1 powering the RX 5000-collection photographs playing cards in 2019, up to the most latest RDNA three used for the RX 7000 series that arrived remaining 12 months.

After seven years at AMD and launching three more and more aggressive generations of RDNA pics architectures, I have decided to depart AMD at the give up of this yr.

Godspeed @amdradeon

I will omit each unmarried considered one of you, combating shoulder to shoulder within the trenches…

– Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) September 25, 2023

Herkelman has regularly spoken about his former employer in much less than flattering phrases. The Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Graphics Business Unit at AMD currently slammed Nvidia over its cards' sixteen-pin connector troubles and referred to as the employer out for blaming users; Nvidia said they had been improperly plugging within the cables. He did admit, however, that AMD had considered the usage of the sixteen-pin connector within the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT and that it is able to appear in future playing cards, probable RDNA 4-based fashions.

Back in 2019, Herkelman said AMD had tricked Nvidia into overpricing its RTX 2060 Super and 2070 Super playing cards with the aid of reducing the previously discovered costs of the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, a pass that Herkelman claimed turned into pre-deliberate.

The AMD exec made a subtle connection with Team Green in his statement publish. "May you still punch above your weight elegance and at some point… beat the final boss," he wrote.

Herkelman has not introduced his plans for after 2023. A go back to Nvidia seems unlikely – though you may by no means make certain approximately these things. There's usually a hazard he may join Intel to work on Team Blue's subsequent generation of images playing cards.

According to reviews, AMD has confirmed that Herkelman's role may be crammed via Jack Huynh. He changed into previously the senior vice president and widespread manager of the semi-custom organization, which included protecting all aspects of AMD semi-custom solutions found within the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, and Valve Steam Deck.