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Wasn’t he an exec at ATI when they launched the 9800 Pro? Arguably one of their most successful GPUs, if not the most successful.

So he has had some successful launches, which probably is why he landed these gigs… however yes, Vega wasn’t much of a hit for gaming. It mainly excelled at compute.

As I understand it, the ATI days were his last successes. Since then, his career as an exec has involved presiding over products that are somewhere between terrible and mediocre.

Wait, are you talking about the same Vega that's in the AM4 APUs and Ryzen Embedded? If so how would that be a flop? It's been a huge success.

No, I meant Radeon Vega56 and Vega64

edit nvm, I’m the one who can’t read.

He worked at both Intel and AMD (at different times obviously, AMD first). This is what the original poster meant by “either company.”