Raja Koduri休假至12月，Lisa Su接管RTG

Vega发布后，AMD高级副总裁兼RTG首席架构师，RTG掌门人Raja Koduri准备休假【Sabbatical】。

休假从9月25日开始，一直到12月，在此期间AMD CEO Lisa Su将接管RTG。

AMD预计2018年对于RTG将是非常忙碌的一年。

当然，对此不必做过多解读。

几处地方

2018年Raja将把焦点转移到架构，以及实现人工智能、虚拟云、区块链计算等新的市场愿景，同时重新权衡自己的职责。

年初Raja提醒说Vega会很艰难，当时有些人不相信，现在看到了。

Vega对于Raja自身也很艰难，花掉了太多个人时间，所以现在决定休假陪家人

Raja一直想休假，但没有找到合适的时间

Lisa Su也认为Q4比2018休假要好，因为2018会有新一波产品

休假从9月25日开始，一直到12月。

Raja发给RTG的邮件原文：

RTG Team,

You haven’t heard from me collectively in a while ? a symptom not only of the whirlwind of launching Vega, but simply of the huge number of demands on my time since the formation of RTG. Looking back over this short period, it is an impressive view. We have delivered 6 straight quarters of double-digit growth in graphics, culminating in the launch of Vega and being back in high-performance. What we have done with Vega is unparalleled. We entered the high-end gaming, professional workstation and machine intelligence markets with Vega in a very short period of time. The demand for Vega (and Polaris!) is fantastic, and overall momentum for our graphics is strong.

Incredibly, we as AMD also managed to spectacularly re-enter the high-performance CPU segments this year. We are all exceptionally proud of Ryzen, Epyc and Threadripper. The computing world is not the same anymore and the whole world is cheering for AMD. Congratulations and thanks to those of you in RTG who helped see these products through. The market for high-performance computing is on an explosive growth trajectory driven by machine intelligence, visual cloud, blockchain and other exciting new workloads. Our vision of immersive and instinctive computing is within grasp. As we enter 2018, I will be shifting my focus more toward architecting and realizing this vision and rebalancing my operational responsibilities.

At the beginning of the year I warned that Vega would be hard. At the time, some folks didn’t believe me. Now many of you understand what I said. Vega was indeed hard on many, and my sincere heartfelt thanks to all of you who endured the Vega journey with me. Vega was personally hard on me as well and I used up a lot of family credits during this journey. I have decided to take a time-off in Q4 to spend time with my family. I have been contemplating this for a while now and there was never a good time to do this. Lisa and I agreed that Q4 is better than 2018, before the next wave of product excitement. Lisa will be acting as the leader of RTG during by absence. My sincere thanks to Lisa and rest of AET for supporting me in this decision and agreeing to take on additional workload during my absence.

I am looking to start my time-off on Sept 25th and return in December.

Thank you, all of you, for your unwavering focus, dedication and support over these past months, and for helping us to build something incredible. We are not done yet, and keep the momentum going!

Regards, Raja

Good luck Raja.

via：fudzilla/PCPER