Intel has announced that Deepak Patil will be taking the helm as the corporate vice president and general manager for Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. For the past year, Patil has been serving as Intel’s chief technology and strategy officer in its Data Center and AI group; prior to that, he spent about four years at Dell, where he was senior vice president for APEX engineering.
Patil takes over (more or less) for Raja Koduri, who led the AXG group from its inception in June 2021. Koduri continued to lead the AXG group for about a year and a half after its formation. In December 2022, the AXG group was chopped up as part of Intel’s streamlining efforts, with the consumer GPU work folded into Intel’s Client Computing group and the remaining AXG team, which is focused on datacenter-oriented GPUs (like Ponte Vecchio/Intel Max series GPUs), slotted under the Data Center and AI group. When this reorganization was announced, Koduri stepped away from the AXG group to (briefly) return to his prior role as Intel’s chief architect before departing Intel at the end of March, just three months after the reorganization.
When Koduri left the AXG group – prior to his departure from Intel – the vacancy was filled on an interim basis by Jeff McVeigh, head of the Super Compute Group, itself nestled under the AXG umbrella. McVeigh has served in that role for around four months, but will return to leading the Super Compute Group when Patil takes the mantle.
In its press statement announcing the news, Intel once again shared an aspiration to achieve a “predictable cadence” – an increasingly urgent matter as the chip giant aggressively whittles down efforts outside its core businesses amid missed deadlines and waning market share. Some of Intel’s choices in recent months, though, have left stakeholders raising their eyebrows, with sudden pivots in the present standing in apparent contrast to ambitious plans for the future.
Intel’s full statement is included below.
Intel will deliver competitive accelerated computing products and build scalable systems with easy-to-program software on a predictable cadence. Deepak Patil will serve as the CVP and General Manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group.
Deepak recently held the position of DCAI Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Having held senior engineering leadership positions across the high-tech industry, including being a founding member of Microsoft Azure and leading Dell’s APEX as-a-service business, he understands the important role that software and open ecosystems play in enabling application developers and service providers to bring innovative solutions to market, at scale. His rich systems, software and services experience will build on the deep silicon and graphics architecture and engineering expertise in AXG, to accelerate the growth of Intel’s position in the AI, HPC and client graphics markets.
Jeff McVeigh will return to leading the Super Compute Group while also helping Deepak ramp in his new role.