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But this is the the thing. Speaking as someone who dabbles in this area rather than any kind of expert, it’s baffling to me that people like Intel are making p

But this is the the thing. Speaking as someone who dabbles in this area rather than any kind of expert, it’s baffling to me that people like Intel are making press releases and public statements rather than (I don’t know) putting in the frikkin work to make performance of the one library that people actually use decent. You have a massive organization full of gazillions of engineers many of whom are really excellent. Before you open your mouth in public and say something is a priority, deploy a lot of them against this and manifest that priority by actually doing the thing that is necessary so people can use your stuff. It’s really hard to take them seriously when they haven’t (yet) done that.

pas 3y ago
You know how it works. The same busybodies who are putting out this useless noise releases are the ones who squandered Intel's lead, and now are patting themselves on the back for figuring out that with this they'll again be on top for sure! There was a post on HN a few months ago about how Nvidia's CEO still has meetings with engineers in the trenches. Contrast that with what we know of Intel, which is not much good, and a lot of bad. (That they are notoriously not-well-paying, because they were riding on their name recognition.)