Building A Better Machine For An AI World

Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. In two stints with AMD, Koduri was key in steering the development and use of the chip maker's Radeon GPUs, expanding their use from client and gaming systems into the datacenter and HPC fields. In the middle of his almost 13 years at AMD, he left for four years to run Apple graphics architecture business, returning in 2013. And three years ago, of course, Koduri came into Intel, where he now is the company's chief architect, vice president, and general manager of the Cores and Visual Computing and Edge Computing Solutions unit. The job gives him an unobstructed view of what the future of computing looks like, and for all of the rapid changes that are happening and the challenges they present, the goal in many ways the same as it was in the PC era and now the mobile and cloud era – make a lot of compute capability available to as many people as possible.