AMD Marketing Guru Darren McPhee joins Intel's Discrete Graphics Team
Intel hires another ATI/AMD veteran
Published: 29th October 2018 | Source: Darren McPhee - Twitter |
AMD Marketing Guru Darren McPhee joins Intel's Discrete Graphics Team
Over the past few years, Intel has been building up their graphics team, gobbling up talent from across the industry. As part of this push, Intel has hired former AMD heavyweights like Raja Koduri, Jim Keller and Chris Hook joining the company in recent years, though Jim Keller is not part of Intel's Discrete Graphics group.
Tonight, we have a new name to add to the list, with Darren McPhee revealing that he has joined Intel as their Director of Product Marketing in their Discrete Graphics group.
This means that Darren McPhee will be working with Chris Hook on Intel's GPU marketing campaigns, which means that we may soon see an Intel version of Radeon's "The Fixer", at least hypothetically.
In case you were not into PC building/gaming in 2013, here is a short glimpse of AMD's "The Fixer" marketing campaign, which roughly coincided with the release of Radeon's 5-game "Never Settle" game bundle for early GCN graphics products. Remember the HD 7970? Good times.
Tonight, we have a new name to add to the list, with Darren McPhee revealing that he has joined Intel as their Director of Product Marketing in their Discrete Graphics group.
This means that Darren McPhee will be working with Chris Hook on Intel's GPU marketing campaigns, which means that we may soon see an Intel version of Radeon's "The Fixer", at least hypothetically.
In case you were not into PC building/gaming in 2013, here is a short glimpse of AMD's "The Fixer" marketing campaign, which roughly coincided with the release of Radeon's 5-game "Never Settle" game bundle for early GCN graphics products. Remember the HD 7970? Good times.
Darren McPhee worked for ATI Technologies between 2003 until AMD acquired the company in 2007. After the acquisition, McPhee worked for AMD until October 2015, after which he worked for DM17 Marketing Solutions and BlueCat.
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Those ads were terrible, Intel are in trouble XD
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TBH, AMD's early GCN cards aged very well, and the "Never Settle" game bundle had myself and a lot of friends go with AMD in that generation. Remember the HD 7870 Tahiti LE?Quote
I still use a HD7870 XT/Tahiti LE as my main card (Via an expresscard eGPU setup). Still works great at 1080p in modern titles like Horizon 4 & BF1. Not really seen a reason to upgrade yet for the gaming I usually do(Though I broke the cooler a little while ago and installed a fairly beefy aftermarket one so it's at 1200Mhz).Quote
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Originally Posted by tgrech
I still use a HD7870 XT/Tahiti LE as my main card (Via an expresscard eGPU setup). Still works great at 1080p in modern titles like Horizon 4 & BF1. Not really seen a reason to upgrade yet for the gaming I usually do(Though I broke the cooler a little while ago and installed a fairly beefy aftermarket one so it's at 1200Mhz).
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One of my friends broke his cooler as well, so he is also using an aftermarket air cooler.Quote
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To me, they are the type of bad that is soo bad it comes back and becomes good again.
TBH, AMD's early GCN cards aged very well, and the "Never Settle" game bundle had myself and a lot of friends go with AMD in that generation. Remember the HD 7870 Tahiti LE? |
That and then Hawaii up until Nvidias next cards was the last time they both were truly competitive. Good times.Quote
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