It looks like Raja will lead the development of machine learning-focused GPUs. Isn't this Intel basically admitting that their Xeon Phi, Nervana, and Altera GPU efforts to win the machine learning market are all a dead-end?

How many machine learning strategies is Intel going to try? Does it even know what it's doing? Spending billions of dollars left and right on totally different machine learning technologies kind of looks like it doesn't, and it's just hoping it will get lucky with one of them.

And even if you think that's not a terrible strategy to "see what works", there's still the issue that they need to have great software support for all of these platforms if they want developer adoption. The more different machine learning strategies it adopts, the harder that's going to be for Intel to achieve.