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Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance

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CUDA, woulda, shoulda. Intel had its chance and refused to obey Andy Grove's injunction to stay paranoid. This is the end result.

They were really lucky that investing $millions on a software ecosystem to enable HPC to researchers take advantage of vector processing units they also spent $millions to produce paid off.

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers

Channel your inner Balmer

But ai can replace programmers, so now intel can just nvidia cards to train an ai that will outcompete nvidia developers and thus overtake nvidia.

nvidia has more nvidia cards than intel has nvidia cards.

So they can make an ai that makes nvidia cards even faster meaning intel can buy as many nvidia cards to beat nvidia to it. Dont even know what the point is anymore since ai will replace everything and do everything on its own including new ai.

What? As an obvious example if this were to be correct (it in no way is), why couldn't Nvidia then buy Intel cards to retain the lead? Why could Nvidia not keep building its own AI?

This sounds like just the kind of plan a company that has no idea how to write software would do. You're an Oracle.

>They were really lucky that investing $millions

More like billions over the course of CUDA and its predecessors. The whole thing about wanting to use GPU for not just Graphics but other HPC or highly parallel computing started before 2000. And if you believe Jensen it has always been one of the founding principle of Nvidia.

But the headline is clickbait, Pat actually said something different and more about Larrabee.

Nvidia were also lucky enough to be in the right at the right time for crypto as well, weren’t they?

Feels like he should entertain the possibility that they made their own luck.

Also at the right place at the right time to replace 3DFX as the dominant GPU vendor.

Pretending Jensen is lucky rather than smart makes this person, and therefore Intel, look foolish.

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

They worked over a long-term to provide a solution (which was hardware plus a supportive ecosystem of software, note) and the problem came along presently. Or several problems, actually - gaming, crypto, now AI.

Luck had nothing to do with it. Nvidia is still at its heart an engineering company.

Intel was (and is trying to become again, an engineering company). It was run far too long by bean counters and business executives too far removed from engineering.

Tech development is not kind to incompetence. Now that shipping times for AI related hardware are out beyond year in many instances, the incumbent players have dominance - a position they're unlikely to loose for several years.

It ain't luck: people like me were buying nvidia cards to run OpenGL on linux decades ago and nvidia was already coming to my supercomputer center to sell us on early GPUs in ~2007. They are the only company that took high performance GPUs seriously for a long time. Intel didn't do all the things nvidia did.

What about Apple? They must have been extremely lucky to break their partnership with Intel. Bubye intc

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