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The gpu being connected via iCXL is super interesting. I feel like Intel's discrete gpus have a much much stronger chance to stick around grow & evolve if the
by rektide 4y ago
The gpu being connected via iCXL is super interesting.
I feel like Intel's discrete gpus have a much much stronger chance to stick around grow & evolve if the "onboard" gpu is nearly a somewhat smaller discrete chip, using potentially the same slightly-better-than-pcie connectivity a discrete board uses.
Reciprocally it'll be interesting to see how AMD powers down & takes InfinityFabric mobile. I didnt know their mobile lineup was eventually moving off monolithic!
Another superb chips & cheese writeup. These folks make me feel like it's two decades ago & we're not afraid to go deep on architecture again. Envigorating; love it!
- CoastalCoder 4y agoA few days ago, Moore's Law is Dead reported that Intel has internally decided to kill off the discrete Arc chips. AFAIK they're still planning to develop iGPUs, so maybe Intel can spend some time quietly building the HW and SW for a proper dGPU sometime in the future. Although it's anyone's guess how long it will take for anyone to believe Intel about dGPUs again after the Arc debacle. EDIT: apparently Intel is claiming that the Arc dGPU has not been cancelled. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see. MLID is usually pretty reliable, but I doubt Raja wants to be charged with misleading investors.
- rowanG077 4y agoThere have been claims for months that it has been killed off. I think it's just astroturfing from competitors.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoMy impression was that MLID does a pretty good job of vetting his leaks. That said, yesterday I came across some subreddit where the consensus was that MLID is very unreliable. So I guess I'll just need to see how this plays out. Still, I notice that Raja's tweeted response doesn't clearly reject the rumor. That seems suspicious to me.