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I remember being in an intel engineering meeting, and some guy was showing a roadmap of how the next generation the chip was going to allow our solution to be a

I remember being in an intel engineering meeting, and some guy was showing a roadmap of how the next generation the chip was going to allow our solution to be almost on par with Nvidia's solution. That was at a time where the "next generation" chip was 2 years late, 2 years away at best, and we were comparing to what some consumer could run on their nvidia device that they had in their computer already. I'm not sure if everyone in the meeting viewed it as badly as I did, but my take-away from the meeting was "If everything goes to plan, and nvidia stop producing chips in 2-3 years time we'll be a little bit worse than them". Strange times. I guess the good news is Intel don't just do this to their customers.

volkl48 5y ago
Are we talking about Intel's plans for a standalone GPU? Intel hadn't shipped a dedicated GPU in >20 years (until the low-end DG1 last year) and their integrated graphics were anemic at best for most of that time period. "2-4 years behind Nvidia" would be pretty impressive of a leap to have been aiming for in some meeting a few years ago. I don't expect to be purchasing their DG2/"Arc Alchemist" when it launches in a few months, but if it's remotely competitive with mid-range current generation cards (as has been rumored/claimed), that'll be pretty impressive to my mind, to basically enter a completely new market segment for them and have a product that's even worth discussing.
- Traster 5y ago
  No it wasn't, it was something a lot more niche.
- SpelingBeeChamp 5y ago
  “…that'll be pretty impressive to my mind, to basically enter a completely new market segment for them and have a product that's even worth discussing.” Sounds pretty normal to me. Why would a company enter a new market if they don’t have a product people want? I can’t think of any company that launched a new product by announcing “We don’t have anything competitive.” Am I misunderstanding your comment? (Or reality.)

volkl48 5y ago

Are we talking about Intel's plans for a standalone GPU? Intel hadn't shipped a dedicated GPU in >20 years (until the low-end DG1 last year) and their integrated graphics were anemic at best for most of that time period. "2-4 years behind Nvidia" would be pretty impressive of a leap to have been aiming for in some meeting a few years ago. I don't expect to be purchasing their DG2/"Arc Alchemist" when it launches in a few months, but if it's remotely competitive with mid-range current generation cards (as has been rumored/claimed), that'll be pretty impressive to my mind, to basically enter a completely new market segment for them and have a product that's even worth discussing.

Traster 5y ago
No it wasn't, it was something a lot more niche.
SpelingBeeChamp 5y ago
“…that'll be pretty impressive to my mind, to basically enter a completely new market segment for them and have a product that's even worth discussing.” Sounds pretty normal to me. Why would a company enter a new market if they don’t have a product people want? I can’t think of any company that launched a new product by announcing “We don’t have anything competitive.” Am I misunderstanding your comment? (Or reality.)