Intel Poaches Chief Architect Of Xbox One and Scorpio SoCs: John Sell

I just got word that Intel has poached one of the most distinguished architects to the Xbox efforts. John Sell was Chief Architect of Xbox One, Scorpio and Scarlett SoCs and and has joined Intel’s architecture division as an Intel fellow. From what I have been told, John will be working on security for Intel architecture, graphics and software. In other words, this guy has been picked up by Raja Koduri – who is chief architect at Intel right now.

Intel hires Xbox One chief architect John Sell

Mr. John’s skills are going to be prove to be immensely valuable to Intel because the one thing that low power graphics SoCs do really well is consoles and even though Mr. John might not be working for that branch right now (non compete?) there is nothing stopping him from eventually transitioning to a similar role in Intel as well.

Here’s the interesting thing though, John was an AMD guy first. He had been senior fellow of AMD since 1997 to 2005 before he left for Microsoft. From the looks of it, Intel is turning into a more OG-AMD than AMD itself is right now. The company has been very aggressively hiring talent for a while now and has been poaching people left and right from companies like Tesla, Google and of course AMD and NVIDIA.

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