I dont want to be pessimistic but that is still a lot of "if" and "could". I think they are still at least 2 years away from seriously competing against Nvidia.
And this is 6 years after Raja has taken their GPU team lead ( and now left ).
And this is 6 years after Raja has taken their GPU team lead ( and now left ).
I don't get it. Intel have decades of relevant expertise, and have been printing money for years due to AMD's effective absence from the top-class CPU market between 2005 and 2015.
And yet years and years and years go by, and Nvidia is now the world's fifth most valuable company, far surpassing all other chip manufacturers (except Apple), and nothing is happening on the market.
How the fuck is this even possible?
* https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
Anecdata (n=1): I'm currently running a 3070 but increased my screen size lately, so I'd like to upgrade and hand down my current card to my wife. After checking the current market, I essentially have two choices: either spend ~300€ more than I should have to on a 4070ti/4080 or bury the chance of properly working with AI locally and go with AMD (which might increase my power costs immensely as well).
So I just do neither and wait, and I'm surely not alone in this position.
Intel hires about half of the graduates from my uni, everyone who likes coding fled to startups or super specific teams.
There are strong engineers in Intel for sure but it has a pretty awful culture.
Nvidia’a isn’t great but it’s heaps better in terms of actually taking results into account.
My personal experience is only with the local (Israel) branches of both.
Which is one of the reasons why Apple stop caring about OpenCL, apparently they have repented giving it Khronos, and how it was managed afterwards.
> I don't get it. Intel have decades of relevant expertise, and have been printing money for years due to AMD's effective absence from the top-class CPU market between 2005 and 2015.
Noone gets it. From an armchair-expert point of view, anything nvidia can do, anyone else can do, they only need money, and they (Intel, Qualcomm, FAANG) have it.
Probably indeed noone was interested in competing, it didn't seemed to be a good deal, until the past few years.
Note: I dislike much of what Nvidia does (proprietary drivers, insane prices, ghetto anti-competition tricks, etc). But you gotta give it to them as far as innovation and quality of engineering goes.
It's just not a good architecture. The Arc 770 has ~22 billion transistors to compete with a 3060 with ~13billion transistors. Power usage is much higher too.
Gamers will accept this since we don't have our PCs on all day. But they're years off an architecture that can be competitive in a data centre scenario.
there are still plenty of arm models available. many of which are really just tablet hardware in a clamshell. which, so are many of the intel models if you look closely.
it isn’t so much intel occupying the low end laptop space, as commodity tablet hardware.