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AMD's Scott Herkelman Announces Departure

Scott Herkelman thanks his colleagues who have served with him "shoulder to shoulder in the trenches."

www.tomshardware.com

In a post this afternoon to X (formerly known as Twitter), Scott Herkelman, who serves as AMD’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Graphics Business unit, announced that he is leaving the company. Herkelman's departure comes after Robert Hallock, who served as Director of Technical Marketing, left the company in late 2022.


“After seven years at AMD and launching three increasingly competitive generations of RDNA graphics architectures, I have decided to leave AMD,” said Herkelman.

 

[clintar]

“After seven years at AMD and launching three increasingly competitive generations of RDNA graphics architectures, I have decided to leave AMD,” said Herkelman.
I guess not competitive enough.

 

[violence]

May they stay competitive.

 

[Leonidas]

I hope FSR3 still launches on time, it is supposed to release in September with Immortals of Aveum after being announced nearly a year ago...

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Buggy Loop]

Isn’t this guy behind the “up to” performances on RDNA 3 presentation? I would say I’m surprised it was not sooner

 

[Kuranghi]

The top card for features and perf, even if not the best value, has been Nvidia since the Maxwell at least (I had a 7870 before that, was the 700-series better than AMD equivalent?).

Is that going to change after 10 years? I'm asking not being facetious.

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

He bought a 4090 to play Phantom Liberty and was "wtf are we doing over here?".

 

[winjer]

The top card for features and perf, even if not the best value, has been Nvidia since the Maxwell at least (I had a 7870 before that, was the 700-series better than AMD equivalent?).

Is that going to change after 10 years? I'm asking not being facetious.

AMD was able to catch up to Intel thanks to Brian Krzanich's incompetence.
But NVidias Jensen Huang, not only is very competent, he has much greater view of the future of tech.
It will take a miracle for AMD to match NVidia.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Met him a few times and had a good chat a handful of times. A very passionate individual.

Gg for all the hardwork. Wonder what he is going to do next.

 

[ckaneo]

They copy Nvidia too much. Need something that sets them apart instead of just cheaper prices.


Or they should go even cheaper.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

This doesn't bald well considering the rumors of their next lineup not competing on the high end anymore. And I think competition is good but AMD has dropped the ball and not taking advantage of Nvidia's goofs as much as they could have.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Dude came from Nvidia.

Probably going to Intel next.

 

[Horseganador]

The thing is that the performance gap between AMD and Nvidia in areas such as RT, AI, DLSS, etc... was increasingly larger and more evident, AMD will have nothing to compete with the RTX 50XX.

 

[Windom Earle]

In the end this thread broke him: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nvid...drive-mode-500-faster-with-frame-gen.1661569/

 

[SABRE220]

It was needed, there is a definite need for a change in direction and ambition for the graphics department of amd. The gpu side became an afterthought and embarrassment ever since amd basically decided to gut their gpu side to fund ryzen and zen.