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>Optane is another recent example. Cool technology, but if a product is not a smashing success right away, Intel throws in the towel. Wasn't the actual (partia

• brokencode 3y ago
  From my understanding, the problem was that it wasn’t selling well enough and they decided to cut their losses. I’m not saying that Optane was a hill they needed to die on, but it’s just another example of their failed leadership and decision making. Look at how AMD is pursuing and largely succeeding with their vision of using chiplets in their CPUs and GPUs to enable significantly higher core counts at a lower cost. Or how Nvidia is innovating with massive AI supercomputers, ray tracing, and DLSS. What is Intel’s vision? In what way are they inventing the next generation of computing? It seems to me that their company objective is just to play catch up with AMD and Nvidia.
  • dgacmu 3y ago
    > It seems to me that their company objective is just to play catch up with AMD and Nvidia. And TSMC. Intel really wants to win in both the fab game and the chip game.
• wtallis 3y ago
  I think it's fair to say that Optane was not merely "not a smashing success" but was completely uneconomical. Intel was essentially using Optane products as loss leaders to promote platform lock-in, and had limited uptake. Micron made only the smallest token attempt to bring 3D XPoint to market before bailing. Clearly neither partner saw a way forward to reduce the costs drastically to make it competitive as a high-volume product.