Editing AMD (section)

==== Radeon Technologies Group ====
In September 2015, AMD separated the graphics technology division of the company into an independent internal unit called the '''Radeon Technologies Group''' (RTG) headed by [[Raja Koduri]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Higginbotham |first=Stacey |date=September 9, 2015 |title=AMD splits out its graphics chips into the Radeon Technology Group |work=Fortune |url=http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/amd-graphics-chip-split/ |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> This gave the graphics division of AMD autonomy in product design and marketing.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Takahashi |first=Dean |date=September 14, 2016 |title=AMD celebrates a year of its revamped Radeon Technologies Group |work=VentureBeat |url=https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/14/amd-celebrates-a-year-of-its-revamped-radeon-technologies-group/ |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Moorehead |first=Patrich |date=November 12, 2015 |title=Advanced Micro Devices's Head Of Radeon Technologies Group, Raja Koduri, Talks About Their Future |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2015/11/12/advanced-micro-devicess-head-of-radeon-technologies-group-raja-koduri-talks-about-the-future/ |magazine=Forbes |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> The RTG then went on to create and release the [[AMD Polaris|Polaris]] and [[Graphics Core Next#Vega|Vega]] microarchitectures released in 2016 and 2017, respectively.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Ryan |date=June 29, 2016 |title=The AMD Radeon RX 480 Preview |publisher=Anandtech |url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/10446/the-amd-radeon-rx-480-preview |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Ryan |date=January 5, 2017 |title=The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Preview |publisher=Anandtech |url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/11002/the-amd-vega-gpu-architecture-teaser |access-date=July 10, 2017}}</ref> In particular the Vega, or fifth-generation [[Graphics Core Next|GCN]], microarchitecture includes a number of major revisions to improve performance and compute capabilities.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Ryan |date=January 5, 2017 |title=The AMD Vega GPU Architecture Preview |publisher=Anandtech |url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/11002/the-amd-vega-gpu-architecture-teaser |access-date=July 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Ryan |last2=Oh |first2=Nate |date=August 14, 2017 |title=The AMD RX Vega 64 & RX Vega 56 Review: Vega Burning Bright |publisher=Anandtech.com |url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/11717/the-amd-radeon-rx-vega-64-and-56-review |access-date=August 16, 2017}}</ref>

In November 2017, Raja Koduri left RTG<ref name="Hexus Net">{{cite web |title=Exclusive: Raja Koduri, Radeon Technologies Boss, leaves AMD |url=https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/111926-exclusive-raja-koduri-radeon-technologies-boss-leaves-amd/ |access-date=January 6, 2020 |website=hexus.net |date=November 7, 2017 |publisher=[[Hexus]]}}</ref> and CEO and President Lisa Su took his position. In January 2018, it was reported that two industry veterans joined RTG, namely [[Mike Rayfield]] as senior vice president and general manager of RTG, and [[David Wang (executive)|David Wang]] as senior vice president of engineering for RTG.<ref name="hexus.net">{{cite web |title=Two industry veterans join AMD Radeon Technologies Group  |url=https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/114608-two-industry-veterans-join-amd-radeon-technologies-group/ |access-date=January 6, 2020 |website=hexus.net |date=January 24, 2018 |publisher=[[Hexus Net]]}}</ref> In January 2020, AMD announced that its second-generation [[RDNA (microarchitecture)|RDNA]] graphics architecture was in development, with the aim of competing with the [[Nvidia]] [[Nvidia RTX|RTX]] graphics products for performance leadership. In October 2020, AMD announced their new [[Radeon RX 6000 series|RX 6000]] series<ref>{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Ryan |title=AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th |url=https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-rx-6000-series-rdna2-starts-at-the-highend-coming-november-18th |access-date=November 1, 2020 |website=anandtech.com}}</ref> series GPUs, their first high-end product based on RDNA2 and capable of handling ray-tracing natively, aiming to challenge Nvidia's RTX 3000 GPUs.