Raja Koduri

Raja Koduri is an Indian computer engineer who spent his career designing graphics processors. Born in 1968 in Kovvur in Andhra Pradesh, he studied electronics and communications at Andhra University and took a master's degree in technology at IIT Kharagpur. He joined S3 Graphics in 1996 and became director of advanced technology development at ATI Technologies in 2001, where he contributed to several generations of GPU architecture that tracked Microsoft's DirectX versions three through eleven. After AMD bought ATI he served as its graphics chief technology officer until 2009, then worked at Apple on the graphics hardware behind the Retina displays of its Mac computers. He returned to AMD in 2013 and from 2015 led the Radeon Technologies Group as chief architect, overseeing the Polaris, Vega and Navi architectures. In 2017 he moved to Intel as chief architect for its new discrete graphics effort, which led to the Arc line of consumer GPUs, and he left that division in 2023 to found an artificial intelligence software start-up.