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They went into this knowing they'd spend billions before making money. Its taken almost a decade of development and Alchemist is out on the market and the drive
by 7speter 4y ago
They went into this knowing they'd spend billions before making money. Its taken almost a decade of development and Alchemist is out on the market and the drivers continue to improve. Intel's a big company with 28 billion in cash on hand, I don't see them giving up in this space when AI/ML is becoming a burgeoning cash cow.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>They went into this knowing they'd spend billions before making money. They went into this during the covid and crypto driven GPU scalpocalipse when everything that could render triangles would sell for whatever sticker price you put on it but ended up launching right after the bubble bust. Very unfortunate timing. Now their products need to actually be competitive.
- 7speter 4y agoIntel didn't just jump into the gpu market because of the 2020 mining craze. It takes much longer to develop these products. They hired Raja Koduri in 2017: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-poaches-amds-top-gpu-architect-to-build-its-own-discrete-graphics-chips/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-poaches-amds-t...
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>They hired Raja Koduri in 2017 Ah yes, the person who led the development of the least successful GPUs in Radeon's history. Intel looked at his achievements and thought "that's the rockstar we need".
- ksec 4y agoThank God I find another person on HN with similar views on Intel's GPU and Raja.