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Can you elaborate further why you think their technology and patent portfolio can be taken over by "someone"?

jandrese 9y ago
I thought Intel might have wanted to purchase them years ago when their own homegrown graphics stack was so terrible instead of spending years and millions of dollars to get it up to merely adequate for moderate use. Today I don't know who would buy them. Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre because they're the choice for people who don't give a shit anyway. There was an outside chance a car manufacturer might have wanted to buy them up as a strategic move against their competitors if nVidia's autonomous car GPU thing panned out, but I think they were too late to the ball for that one. It's hard to see the value proposition for most companies.
- freehunter 9y ago
  >Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre I have a lot of complaints about Intel and their mediocrity, but the Intel HD graphics have gotten good in the last 10 years. The Intel GMA was awful and could barely run Quake 3. Intel HD will power through quite a lot. Not up to snuff with a real gamer's card, sure, but good enough that a casual gamer won't have a problem with it. And you get it for free, so bonus there. I play relatively recent games on my Macbook and it's a lot better than you might think.
  - jandrese 9y ago
    It's fine until you actually start pushing it hard. Intel is far less aggressive with driver fixes and the cards will absolutely collapse at higher detail levels on big screens. No argument that they have improved (the many years and millions of dollars I mentioned were spent), so much so that the low end discrete GPU market is completely dead. But there is still a lot of space between the best Intel card and a mid range nVidia or AMD card like a Geforce 1070.
    - freehunter 9y ago
      >It's fine until you actually start pushing it hard. That's exactly what you don't do with an integrated card. I can play Cities: Skylines and Guild Wars 2 on my 2015 13" Macbook Pro. I think that's amazing. I could barely get 5FPS on the last generation Intel GMA with the original Guild Wars all the way turned down.
rdlecler1 9y ago
China would jump on this in a second but the US government would shoot this down.

I thought Intel might have wanted to purchase them years ago when their own homegrown graphics stack was so terrible instead of spending years and millions of dollars to get it up to merely adequate for moderate use. Today I don't know who would buy them. Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre because they're the choice for people who don't give a shit anyway. There was an outside chance a car manufacturer might have wanted to buy them up as a strategic move against their competitors if nVidia's autonomous car GPU thing panned out, but I think they were too late to the ball for that one. It's hard to see the value proposition for most companies.

freehunter 9y ago
>Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre I have a lot of complaints about Intel and their mediocrity, but the Intel HD graphics have gotten good in the last 10 years. The Intel GMA was awful and could barely run Quake 3. Intel HD will power through quite a lot. Not up to snuff with a real gamer's card, sure, but good enough that a casual gamer won't have a problem with it. And you get it for free, so bonus there. I play relatively recent games on my Macbook and it's a lot better than you might think.
- jandrese 9y ago
  It's fine until you actually start pushing it hard. Intel is far less aggressive with driver fixes and the cards will absolutely collapse at higher detail levels on big screens. No argument that they have improved (the many years and millions of dollars I mentioned were spent), so much so that the low end discrete GPU market is completely dead. But there is still a lot of space between the best Intel card and a mid range nVidia or AMD card like a Geforce 1070.
  - freehunter 9y ago
    >It's fine until you actually start pushing it hard. That's exactly what you don't do with an integrated card. I can play Cities: Skylines and Guild Wars 2 on my 2015 13" Macbook Pro. I think that's amazing. I could barely get 5FPS on the last generation Intel GMA with the original Guild Wars all the way turned down.

rdlecler1 9y ago

China would jump on this in a second but the US government would shoot this down.