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I think Intel is doing relatively well on the software side, given how short a time frame we're talking about. OneAPI is in the same ballpark as AMD and on a be
by mastax 3y ago
I think Intel is doing relatively well on the software side, given how short a time frame we're talking about. OneAPI is in the same ballpark as AMD and on a better trajectory, I think. They're competing for second place, remember.
The more disappointing thing for me is that they bought like 5 AI startups pretty early on and have basically just shut most of them down. Maybe that was always the plan? See which ones develop the best and consider the rest to be acqui-hires? But I think it's more likely just fallout from Intel's era of flailing around and acquiring random crap.
- eyegor 3y agoIntel has been running oneapi for several years, and as a long time user I assure you it's horrible to deal with. It's the only software I've dealt with that breaks other software. Every year or two I'd have to fully reinstall visual studio because it hopped in, messed up a bunch of files, and the uninstaller never works. It will also happily break your system python environment if you let it try. And did I mention it takes over an hour to run through their horrible installer that tends to break itself? Even under linux it would try to hop in and screw up system /bin and /sbin links because why not. They also shut down their old license validation portals so their older, working versions can no longer be installed. Intels dev tooling is absolutely the worst tooling around.
- rbanffy 3y ago> They also shut down their old license validation portals For a company that makes a truckload of money from selling CPUs it's unforgivable their tools are not a) free b) top-notch I know one is limited by how good Windows is when you ship a tool for Windows, but your description is quite horrifying.
- pjmlp 3y agoOneAPI still isn't as polyglot as CUDA, and they had to buy Codeplay to get better tooling to start with.