In his new role he’ll be doing the same thing he did at AMD -- leading the design process of discrete GPUs.

He had been working for eight years at AMD having spent 15 years with Intel. Before that, he worked at National Semiconductor, which has gone the way of all flesh.

Verma was AMD’s Lead SoC Architect for discrete GPU SoCs for the past three years, during which he worked on projects for the gaming, cloud gaming, consumer, and workstation market segments.

For five years before that, he worked in AMD’s Semi-Custom business unit as a lead architect.

At Intel, he has joined the AXG group, a segment of Intel’s graphics division created by Raja Koduri last year, as the Lead Product Architect of discrete GPU SoCs.

"It’s great to be back at Intel and I’m looking forward to working with the team to define and build innovative next generation GPU products", he wrote on LinkedIn.

Verma will probably have a hand in the development of Intel's Battlemage and Celestial GPUs.

Intel has form when it comes to poaching senior AMD engineers. In 2017, they recruited former head of Radeon Technologies Group Raja Koduri and appointed him Senior Vice President of the Core and Visual Computing Group. He has since led Intel’s development of discrete GPUs and enterprise accelerators.

A year later, Intel recruited the designer of Zen architecture, Jim Keller, though he left in 2020 after a dispute. From AMD’s marketing team, Intel has hired Chris Hook, Darren McPhee, Damien Triolet, and Heather Lennon.