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Finally! Intel has a lot of catching up to do. As GPUs continue to evolve into general purpose vector supercomputers, and as ML/deep learning applications eme
by payne92 9y ago
Finally! Intel has a lot of catching up to do.
As GPUs continue to evolve into general purpose vector supercomputers, and as ML/deep learning applications emerge, it seems clear that more and more future chip real estate (and power) will go to those compute units, not the x86 core in the corner orchestrating things.
- rodgerd 9y ago> Finally Why on earth would you think Intel extending their near-monopoly is a thing to celebrate?
- dsr_ 9y agoThey don't have a monopoly in add-on GPUs. There are two strong competitors, and Intel's current on-chip GPUs are comparatively pitiful.
- mynameisvlad 9y agoIntel doesn't have a near-monopoly in anything, really. AMD is now a solid CPU competitor with Ryzen and Threadripper, and ATI and nVidia exist and dominate in the GPU space.
- retailbuyout 9y agoErr, because they don’t have a monopoly on GPUs and nvidia direly needs competition? EDIT: also if it is discrete gpus and not further integrated ones, I imagine it’s harder to leverage the dominance in the cpu space to push the gpu. (Harder, not assigning any general difficulty to doing that.) Hell, this could even be monopoly protection depending on how they position it—“we can’t be a monopoly because you can use it with an AMD chip!”
- craftyguy 9y agoThis isn't the first time Intel has tried to develop a discrete GPU... anyone remember Larrabee? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
- theatrus2 9y agoAnd i740 before that (I had one of these, it wasn't very good) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740