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Intel is jsut as much a competitor to Nvdia as AMD. I suspect they will work together on creating a CUDA alternative which is the biggest problem both of them f
by HDThoreaun 3y ago
Intel is jsut as much a competitor to Nvdia as AMD. I suspect they will work together on creating a CUDA alternative which is the biggest problem both of them face. If they can figure it out I dont see how nvdia isnt fucked as the money is in the big cloud purchasers who have every incentive to switch as soon as a legitimate alternative presents itself. Even if amd/intel dont beat Nvdia coming close with a product that "just works" for half the price is certainly on the table and will be compelling for the hyperscalers.
- ein0p 3y agoIntel can’t even make a competitive CPU anymore, let alone a competitive compute-oriented GPU. It’s way behind on lithography, with no end in sight. Their GPUs also aren’t properly integrated with any popular DL framework. I honestly have no idea what they’re thinking. If I were them, at least PyTorch would work flawlessly with their current Arc offerings. It doesn’t - it’s a decidedly “enthusiast” affair for people with too much time on their hands. You don’t even need a huge team for this. 25-30 competent C++ folks for 9 months to a year is all it takes.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoI firmly believe intel is incompetent. I also firmly believe that with enough time and money they can come up with a decent offering. Their GPU is still very young, and theyve got plenty of time to figure it out. Theres just no way nvdia keeps its datacenter GPU stranglehold for a decade plus which is what theyd need to do for this market cap to make sense.
- dehrmann 3y ago> CUDA alternative The should name it OpenCL.