Intel Breaks Up Graphics Group, Raja Koduri Moves Back to Chief Architect Role

Isn't this about the third time Intel has gone gung-ho for "serious graphics" and given up?

Intel, your company basically exists to sell useful transistor real estate. If you look at the number of transistors in a graphics card vs a CPU, the graphics card has WAY MORE.

Intel's inabilty to do graphics has always been the canary in the coal mine for their technical competence.

Then again a graphics card is basically a VLIW chip if you squint hard enough, and ... Yeah, I guess it started with Itanium, so is it like four times they've failed at this?

I really wish Intel had let this ride for a couple more years. This feels way too soon. The two (HPC/data-center & consumer) are very different products, yes, but I really want to see some interesting synergy & co-reinforcement. It gives me enormously bad feels to see a company with one of the lowest P/E rations in tech abandon one of the most forward-facing most-hopeful efforts to maintain ecosystem relevance so quickly, to let themselves fracture apart like this.