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One thing that "old Intel" used to do a lot was trying to find use cases for more performance. This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point sili
by cwizou 5y ago
One thing that "old Intel" used to do a lot was trying to find use cases for more performance. This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point silicon would get "good enough" and you wouldn't need to buy better silicon.
Gelsinger was very much part of that a decade or two ago, but I guess he's getting more rational and accepted that yes, to run Office pretty much anything will do. At the same time, the need for more silicon, even for basic tasks will remain strong as silicon just ages out (in part thanks to software, see Windows 11 requirements).
So not completely surprising to see Realsense and other similar niche initiatives get cut in that context.
Also, most of them were also kept alive by the previous CEO who pushed for the "maker" / IoT thing as the "next big(ish) thing". So part of that is also a classical CEO succession story.
- MiddleEndian 5y ago>This used to be a strong fear internally, that at some point silicon would get "good enough" and you wouldn't need to but better silicon. Little did they know the software community would do this work for them by making slower and slower software.
- cwizou 5y agoI'd love to hear in a few years that Intel, under the table, funded Electron. Because it was everything they could have hoped for.
- pfranz 5y ago"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."[1] was a joke in the 90s and some people said the trend was obvious by the late 80s[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law