At the end of last quarter, AMD has formed a division Radeon Technologies Group, which will be responsible not only for graphics solutions, but also in new directions such as "add-on" and "virtual" reality. This structural unit headed Coduri Raja , which has already admitted that next year the company will release two graphics processors with the new architecture.
This week, AMD once again got a chance to talk about the immutability of their plans to improve the graphics. Since 2000, responsible for designing graphics processors was Mentor Michael received a promotion - his new position is now interpreted loosely translated as "technical adviser" under the leadership of AMD.
In addition to the graphics card Radeon, Michael Mentor had a hand in the creation of graphics game consoles Microsoft Xbox 360, Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4. He participated in the development of more than ten generations of graphics processors AMD / ATI, having begun his career in the company as early as 1999. Mentoru managed to register 45 patents owned by AMD. Title Technical Advisor until now belonged only four employees, is the highest position in the career of an engineer. Mentor will oversee the development of new architectures used in PCs, game consoles, virtual reality devices, workstations and supercomputers. Particular attention will be given to technologies with "immersive" - that is, virtual reality. Raja Coduri said that Michael has an impressive experience in developing architectures to accelerate computations .