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At the beginning of the chip shortage, Intel's CPU just weren't very good. AMD was beating them at performance and efficiency. Intel has caught up now, but thei
by windowsrookie 3y ago
At the beginning of the chip shortage, Intel's CPU just weren't very good. AMD was beating them at performance and efficiency. Intel has caught up now, but their chips still use significantly more power than the current AMD chips.
Intel spent a lot of time and money developing their new Arc GPUs. They were delayed and they missed the crypto boom. Drivers and GPU performance were disappointing even after delaying the launch. This first generation of intel GPUs will be a huge loss for them.
Intel is less diversified today. They sold their LTE modem business to apple a few years ago. Intel exited the ARM chip business ~15 years ago, right before the smartphone took off.
Intel is now losing the server chip business. AMD is making competitive sever chips for a lower price. Larger companies are developing their own ARM-based server chips.
Intel is going to start using their foundries to manufacture chips for other customers. It remains to be seen if Intel can compete with TSMC.
- rektide 3y agoTo their credit, the gpu drivers have continued getting much much better, much faster. Intel has long understood the value of drivers, has been one of the primary contributors & drivers of really good open source (albeit with some frustrating areas of sore neglect, like GMA500/Poulso) (But also rip the incredible http://01.org http://01.org those folks were amazing at finding high value open source work to do!). Im glad to see making an already quite reasonable priced value GPU a lot better. But yeah the timing is after the GPU craze. And Intel has been tweaking the same way-too-big big core for too too long & is uncompetitive. And they've been hurting to get a 7nm process (Intel 4) going. A lot of change is necessary.
- seunosewa 3y agoAI has kickstarted a new GPU craze. Hope they catch this one.
- philistine 3y agoOne could conceivably assume that they're talking to Sony and Microsoft about putting their GPUs in their next consoles. I'm not sure Microsoft would bite for compatibility reasons but Sony seems ready to make another blunder.
- windowsrookie 3y agoIt's possible, but AMD has supplied console APUs for two generations now because they are willing to sell them for cheap. Intel has never been interested in low-margin items, but they may need to be in the future. AMD has really targeted the gaming APU market. They make the chips for the Playstation, Xbox, and Steam deck. They also recently announced a new chip for gaming handhelds that Asus is using in their new ROG Ally device.
- zvr 3y agohttps://open.intel.com https://open.intel.com is the successor of 01.org.
- dralley 3y ago> Drivers and GPU performance were disappointing even after delaying the launch. This first generation of intel GPUs will be a huge loss for them. To be fair to Intel, some of this was legitimately overwhelming bad luck - their GPU driver team for Arc was based out of Russia.