Intel's graphics department has been hiring like crazy, many people from AMD already made that move. Albeit the day and date of this rumor are a bit unfortunate, the chatter is that Tom Petersen fro... Rumor: Tom Petersen might be moving to Intel
OK, this dude. That's one guy in nVidia who I like. True geek. If true, intel may have some teeth after all.
Director of technical marketing... so he supervised VRAM gate? And pretty much anything that left us doubting in the last years? At least we now know how Intel wants to do business.
@fantaskarsef : He's not some evil marketing guy. He is tech guy. Pretty advanced. @WhiteLightning : I tend to believe that he'll continue being that kind of person. With him, maybe intel will have something exciting.
@Fox2232 while this is true, as the director of technical merketing he certainly has let a few things pass his desk that later lead to confusion, or annoyance among customers and the general gaming hardware community alike. During his time as technical merketing director, VRAM gate with the 970 came up. Same with the different cores with Turing cards and some of which don't even activate currently. I wouldn't trust this guy more than anybody else just because he knows his way around, and due to company policy still has to say something else.
FWIW the title "Director of Technical Marketing" is kind of misleading - Nvidia has like 5 "Directors of Technical Marketing for X" positions they are hiring for now let alone already have roles filled. Tom was one of many people with that title. Whether or not he was involved with the 970 VRAM, idk it's possible - but watching him on PCPer throughout the years it seems like he was more involved with marketing things like G-Sync, Multi-Res Shading, Shadowplay, FastSync etc - a few of which he actually conceptualized and lead the development on. He always seemed like a good dude to me and I'm kind of sad to see him go. I'll miss his PC Perspective explanations on all the new tech.
Big, big loss for NV. Those who see it as positive thing and treat Tom as some regular marketing guy never worked with him in reality. His input into technologies and developer relations was absolutely huge. Sad day for NV.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tompetersen22/ His experience section shows unemployed since March 2019. Seems confirmed?
Well, if true, I'm glad. Looks like Intel is building quite the team for their GPUs. More competition could be great, as long as we still have nvidia and AMD as well. It will be damn interesting how things will look with 3 players (hopefully one of them won't get bough by another anytime soon).
Hurry up and give me that 32GB Magic 14-dimensional, stupid amount of tfps, 3x 8-pin, dual GPU April Fool's card already, Intel.
Confirmed by Intel, TAP has left the company that can make working GPU's for the company that can neither make cpu's or gpu's.
... I... I do not think i could understand ever how human beings process emotions over logical information.
