NVIDIA has lost its longtime CMO and distinguished engineer Tom Petersen. The latter said on Friday that he had completed his last day at the company. Although the location of the new job has not yet been officially announced, HotHardware sources say that the head of Intel's visual computing division, Ari Rauch, successfully recruited Mr. Peterson to the gaming environments team. Hiring such a specialist is in line with the current strategy of Intel, which is going to introduce its own discrete graphics card Graphics Xe next year and seeks to actively interact with the gaming community.
Tom Petersen is a true industry veteran. Before joining NVIDIA in 2005, he spent most of his career as a CPU designer, working with IBM and Motorola on the PowerPC team. He also worked briefly at Broadcom after the acquisition of SiByte, where he was the CTO of the BCM1400, an embedded quad-core multiprocessor. Prior to this, the specialist was one of the engineers who had a hand in NVIDIA G-Sync frame synchronization technology. About 50 technical patents are signed in his name - in other words, this is a very significant member of the NVIDIA GeForce team.
HotHardware podcast featuring Tom Petersen on Turing architecture, GeForce RTX graphics cards, ray tracing and DLSS intelligent anti-aliasing
The departure of an executive of this caliber from NVIDIA after almost a decade and a half seems quite sudden - apparently, it was not an easy decision. When a person works in one company for a long time, he feels it is a part of his life, and not just another place of work. βToday was my last day as an NVIDIA employee. I will miss them. The team helped me get through some tough times and I am eternally grateful,β wrote Tom Petersen on his Facebook page.
Intel is now actively looking for key technical and marketing people and in late 2017 poached former head of AMD graphics division Raja Koduri, who took a similar position in the new company. Intel has also recruited Chris Hook, a former marketing director for AMD Radeon (who has been with the company for two decades), to promote its graphics solutions.
Among a slew of other notable names joining the Intel team are Jim Keller, a former AMD lead architect who most recently served as VP of Autopilot Hardware Development at Tesla; and Darren McPhee, another industry veteran formerly of AMD.
Intel held a presentation at the GDC 2019 conference, in which, among a number of important announcements, she talked about the performance of the 11th generation of integrated graphics, and also showed the first images of the upcoming Intel Graphics Xe graphics card. Later, however, it turned out that these were just amateur concepts that had nothing to do with the real product.
You can read some of Tom Petersen's articles in a special section of the NVIDIA blog.
Source: 3dnews.ru