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[221.54 --> 223.54] Do you like to watch other people test their boundaries?
[224.44 --> 229.52] Mmm. Are we allowed to talk about stuff like this while we put the sponsor logos on the screen?
[230.50 --> 231.78] synergy
[231.78 --> 233.78] All right
[233.78 --> 235.22] Okay
[235.22 --> 239.68] You pick no we're going we're going right into the radio and technologies group thing
[240.10 --> 244.64] Okay, so I'm gonna open up with I completely disagree with you
[244.64 --> 247.40] And then I'm gonna let you go ahead and make your argument actually no
[247.40 --> 252.18] I'm gonna open up with what the actual news is so the original article here was
[253.38 --> 255.06] actually from
[255.06 --> 260.20] Yong Yong Kang posted it on the forum here. We'll go ahead and pull that up and
[260.20 --> 262.92] And basically just said well, that's odd
[263.52 --> 267.52] Roger so you might remember him as the tiger in Aladdin the
[268.10 --> 269.82] No
[269.82 --> 276.44] You might remember him as the gentleman who dropped the rx480 back when it launched that wasn't me
[276.44 --> 280.56] I was just present he was the one who dropped it. That's where you caught it from um
[281.64 --> 284.22] And he came back to AMD
[284.22 --> 288.62] Right around the time that they launched their hawaii GPUs
[288.62 --> 292.12] so that was the 290x and the 290 and
[293.10 --> 296.08] Vega has basically been his baby
[296.78 --> 298.78] since then and
[299.38 --> 301.60] He is going on a break
[302.38 --> 306.14] Until the end of q4 so the start of 2018
[306.14 --> 313.00] And dr. Lisa sue CEO of AMD so she's so he's been running
[313.54 --> 318.26] Radeon technologies group, which was split off from AMD proper so they're going okay. This is CPU side
[318.36 --> 324.18] This is the GPU side in an attempt to make it easier for the CPU side of things to work with folks like
[324.84 --> 328.42] Nvidia and the GPU side of things to work with folks like
[328.98 --> 332.86] Intel okay, I'm starting to get this so dr. Sue is
[332.86 --> 336.80] Is basically stepping in as now?
[337.38 --> 342.96] The boss and I don't I'll just say boss because I don't technically she was already the CEO of it
[342.96 --> 346.90] So you can't get more boss than that, but she'll be more directly overseeing
[347.38 --> 349.38] Radeon technologies group
[349.74 --> 354.36] Blurring the line between these two companies in my mind anyway in a way and
[355.10 --> 357.10] also um
[357.10 --> 359.72] What's it called when you go like this?
[359.72 --> 365.80] Yes, telegraphing sort of a uh telegraphing an attack, you know, oh god
[365.80 --> 371.92] Yeah, so telegraphing sort of a um in my mind potential
[372.76 --> 374.08] shift in at least her
[375.12 --> 376.62] thoughts for how
[377.90 --> 378.90] Important
[378.90 --> 385.12] Raja is to RTG see I think you're reaching there okay, all right make your make your argument
[385.12 --> 388.88] So he don't let me stop you from making your argument
[389.72 --> 391.36] But uh, yeah, okay
[391.94 --> 399.00] All right, so he worked really hard during bag up needless to say the guy was probably burning the midnight oil for months literally a couple years
[399.98 --> 405.12] So he sent an internal email to the staff. Yeah thanking everyone for their hard work
[405.12 --> 407.12] Um
[407.12 --> 413.74] Highlighting how kick-ass the launch has been for epic and well not epic but thread ripper and ryzen and all of it
[414.82 --> 417.12] and Vega since that's his his baby, so
[417.68 --> 420.64] He thanked everyone for their hard work and then said quote
[421.00 --> 425.44] Vega was personally hard on me as well, and I used up a lot of family credits during this journey
[425.44 --> 430.16] I decided to take a time off now. They can see it. They can see I'm sharing them
[430.16 --> 432.64] But they like when I read stuff so it was tough on him
[433.76 --> 437.92] He's taking some time off. I don't think that's hard to understand so he asked
[438.56 --> 439.52] Sue
[439.52 --> 442.32] When he should take it when he should take time off and she suggested
[443.12 --> 449.68] This last quarter. I think he originally wanted to go off like in january, but there's more product launches then so they chose chose now
[449.84 --> 454.00] So I think your theory about how her influence or presence is going to muddy the water
[454.64 --> 458.96] I don't think that really applies because I think it's a quiet time. She's not gonna have to make that many big decisions
[458.96 --> 460.56] I don't think okay
[460.56 --> 466.24] It's coasting. I don't think there's ever a quiet time in the tech industry for one thing
[466.64 --> 468.64] And here's my counter argument to that
[470.24 --> 471.60] If I told you
[472.40 --> 474.40] That it was in any way
[474.64 --> 476.64] acceptable
[476.64 --> 479.52] For you to be off work for three months
[480.40 --> 481.36] um
[481.36 --> 483.20] Unless there was
[483.20 --> 484.32] I mean
[484.32 --> 487.52] And here's the thing you know, we don't know about his health
[487.52 --> 489.76] or his family's health
[489.76 --> 493.36] Or you know, there may be personal factors at play
[494.16 --> 498.96] So that may be part of why people are reading too much into this because they don't have all the information
[499.44 --> 500.96] But all I can go based on
[501.52 --> 503.52] Is what I see in front of me
[503.52 --> 505.28] And what I see in front of me is
[505.84 --> 511.12] If I told you james that barring any kind of health issues or any kind of family emergency
[511.68 --> 513.12] Or the birth of a child
[513.84 --> 517.28] It was cool for you to just not be at work for a few months
[518.08 --> 519.28] How essential
[520.08 --> 522.72] Would you feel and how essential
[523.44 --> 526.08] would I have to feel like you are to just be like
[527.20 --> 528.96] Yeah, that's cool. You know, actually
[528.96 --> 530.40] You know, it'd be great
[530.40 --> 534.40] Is if maybe for the next few months maybe we just didn't pay you and you just didn't come to work
[535.28 --> 537.44] And then maybe after that you'll come back
[537.92 --> 538.16] And
[539.20 --> 540.00] You know
[540.00 --> 540.72] Like to me
[541.44 --> 543.84] This feels more like a slow
[543.84 --> 544.32] Like a
[544.32 --> 544.64] Like a
[544.64 --> 545.28] Like a
[545.28 --> 545.84] A way to
[546.80 --> 548.64] To quietly phase out
[549.44 --> 551.60] Then it feels like a sabbatical
[551.60 --> 554.16] I could be totally wrong
[554.88 --> 557.12] I could be so far off the mark
[557.92 --> 559.28] That it's not even funny
[560.24 --> 563.28] Because a lot of what's in here on the face of it
[563.92 --> 565.20] Looks fairly credible