They only care about long term market, which is HPC and ML workloads. Because Nvidia is destroying anybody in that market. Look at their stock.
I’ve got a news for Torvalds, it going to get bad for Intel.
If there's anything that has typified Intel in the past decade it's a generalized failure to execute. There's been very little innovation in the core product since Haswell in 2013.
Should I read this as sarcasm?
Windows has declined. It is still used extensively, but Microsoft no longer dictates the browser market. Microsoft Office is commonplace, but has genuine marketshare competition in alternatives like Google Docs. Developers increasingly build "desktop" applications as web-based or multiplatform-first instead of Windows-exclusive, with the notable exception of AAA games. The Linux subsystem for Windows is a direct admission by Microsoft that developers want to work with Linux-based software for many tasks.
> Should I read this as sarcasm?
It could only be sarcastic if he's referring to "Linux on the desktop." I don't have any numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was correct about servers.
But I do think Windows's position in the desktop space is somewhat unsustainable at this point. I personally prefer Windows but I just don't see how a heterogenous user interface experience (with users on iOS and Android for mobile and Windows for desktop) will abide for long.
I think it's only a matter of time before mobile OSes make some serious inroads to desktop. Though I suppose Google has been salivating at that thought for neaely a decade.
50 years ago, IBM owned the computing market with mainframes. They still dominate the mainframe market, that's just become a smaller and smaller portion of the overall computing market as time has gone on.
To be pedantic, Intel does have phone and tablet processors. This doesn't invalidate your point however. I can't easily find a breakdown of mobile cpu market share but I am guessing Intel isn't doing very well.
https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/products/devices-syst...
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/devices-sys...
Also thy are in many other areas then just CPU's including FPGA and hard drives.
Not really, like you mentioned in some ML/HPC contexts GPU computing with commonly Nvidia GPU is a better solution in the desktop marked AMD's recent CPU's are viable alternatives and that also applies for many usages in the server marked. And on mobile, well Intel CPUs never did really compete. Same for game consoles. Oh and for low power embedded systems it's often ARM and for thinks which also need GPU (self driving cars) it's ARM+Nvidea.
I mean sure parts of server the server marked are build on things like Intels (not so) secure enclave and then for some gaming workloads Intel CPU's still beat AMD and for not supper expensive software dev. workstations Intel also still is the best choice as the current CPU+embedded GPU chips from AMD for desktop still use their old CPU.
Through on thing which shouldn't be forgotten is that they have their hands in a lot of other things including:
- FPGA, if you use certain ML algorithm a lot putting them onto a FPGA can be a massive power and time saver. So the Intel CPU + FPGA are quite interesting for such cases.
- Graphics, Intel is about to bring out a dedicated graphic card. Probably not interesting for high end usages but it might be a use-full solution for budged setups or GPU servers (It's often monetary better to have multiple smaller cards then one big cards, it's not uncommon for GPU server to have Nvidea 2080ties instead of Quadros etc.).
- Hard drives, Optan "SSD" are not very well marked but while they are not necessary the fastest SSD's they have good latencies which can make them preferable for some use-cases.
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Another thing which can be beneficial for them in the coming 10 years is that they do not depend on TSCM.
One funny thing I noticed is that Intel can build a good part of a computer today: CPU + GPU + Motherboard + Network Card + Drives + FPGA + OS (Clear Linux), so add RAM, PSU, Cooling, Cables & Case and you have a Intel only desktop ;-)