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> We wouldn’t place heavy bets on Falcon Shores making it to completion unless a big HPC center adopts it, and given how Argonne National Laboratory was treated
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
> We wouldn’t place heavy bets on Falcon Shores making it to completion unless a big HPC center adopts it, and given how Argonne National Laboratory was treated, we don’t think there will be a lot of uptake unless Intel makes some pretty big pricing concessions. Which it can ill afford. Hybrid CPU-GPU devices – the original plan for Falcon Shores, have also been shelved.
That's even more eyebrow raising than an Altera spinoff.
Altera is a good side business, but Falcon Shores is like Intel's consolidated future. If they just let that go... What do they expect? That everyone will just buy Xeon CPUs and IGP laptops forever?
- chx 3y agoLook at https://benchmark.chaos.com/v5/vray?index=1&ordering=desc&by=median&my-scores-only=false https://benchmark.chaos.com/v5/vray?index=1&ordering=desc&by... Intel can ill afford to think about forever. They have a runway built by illegal monopoly tactics. What that runway ends, the music stops unless they do something very drastic to their CPUs right now. In the V-Ray 5 benchmark, the fastest 96 core AMD CPU alone is 30% faster than the fastest Intel offering, 120 cores in two sockets -- and that's not the fastest CPU AMD offers. This is not to say Intel will go bankrupt look at the number of quarters AMD spent in red but it really doesn't want to become #2.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAnd thats with a AMD duopoly where, frankly, AMD is happy to be anticompetitive here and there. A near future with more ARM/RISC-V is very different.