Eric Demers leaves for Intel after 14 years at Qualcomm — father of Radeon and Adreno GPUs now sits at Lip-Bu Tan’s table

January 20, 2026

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Eric Demers leaves for Intel after 14 years at Qualcomm — father of Radeon and Adreno GPUs now sits at Lip-Bu Tan’s table

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The talk of the town in the world of AI right now is almost exclusively about the amounts of money shifting from one company to the next, but the latest event might have farther-reaching effects than most business deals. Eric Demers, who designed ATI’s best GPUs and spearheaded almost all of Qualcomm’s Adreno designs, has now joined Intel’s GPU team “with a focus on AI.”

The blue team’s GPU efforts are all but guaranteed to be significantly bolstered by Demers, a particularly welcome development in…

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Eric Demers leaves for Intel after 14 years at Qualcomm — father of Radeon and Adreno GPUs now sits at Lip-Bu Tan’s table

January 20, 2026

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Eric Demers leaves for Intel after 14 years at Qualcomm — father of Radeon and Adreno GPUs now sits at Lip-Bu Tan’s table

The talk of the town in the world of AI right now is almost exclusively about the amounts of money shifting from one company to the next, but the latest event might have farther-reaching effects than most business deals. Eric Demers, who designed ATI’s best GPUs and spearheaded almost all of Qualcomm’s Adreno designs, has now joined Intel’s GPU team “with a focus on AI.”

The blue team’s GPU efforts are all but guaranteed to be significantly bolstered by Demers, a particularly welcome development in…

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