Manju Hedge, former CUDA and PhysX VP, is leaving NVIDIA to join AMD
KitGuru website has brought us news that Manju Hedge, former CUDA and PhysX Solutions Vice President (previously – CEO and co-founder of Ageia) has left NVIDIA to join AMD.
Our own sources at NVIDIA are indicating – this information is truthful.
However, according to our data, Manju departure won’t affect PhysX (he hasn’t been working on PhysX for over a year) or CUDA development process in NVIDIA, and his new roll in AMD won’t be connected to game physics related projects (instead, Manju is going to be involved in ISV recruitment).
Update: Pursuant to latest press-release, Manju Hedge will lead AMD Fusion Experience Program.
Update #2: from X-bit Labs article
In particular, [Manju Hedge] will manage the developer relations teams that help independent software developers (ISVs) to implement program code optimized for heterogeneous multi-core microprocessors.
We want to thanks Manju Hedge for awesome work on PhysX front and wish him best of luck with this new assignment !
What does ISV mean?
mareknr (QUOTE)
mareknr
25 May 10 at 10:01 pm
mareknr
Independent Software Vendors, afaik
Zogrim (QUOTE)
Zogrim
25 May 10 at 10:14 pm
Thanks.
mareknr (QUOTE)
mareknr
25 May 10 at 10:42 pm
woah … i hope that nvidia found same people for PhysX how was Manju Hedge
MicrO (QUOTE)
MicrO
25 May 10 at 10:50 pm
ABANDON SHIP!! ABANDON SHIP!!
Let the bright minds leave first!
Lulz
omgclayaiken (QUOTE)
omgclayaiken
26 May 10 at 5:43 pm
AMD could use some nice software too, maybe this guy can wake people up over there… although its more likely he’s going to catch a good nap instead. he deserves that after 6 years of PhysX headache
whatever (QUOTE)
whatever
27 May 10 at 4:23 am