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Everything. And it's been going on for over a decade, sitting on their hands thinking AMD (and Arm/Apple) would never catch up.
by daneel_w 2y ago
Everything. And it's been going on for over a decade, sitting on their hands thinking AMD (and Arm/Apple) would never catch up.
- adventured 2y agoThe people who built Intel all died and faded away from the company. Those people understood the razor sharp edge you had to maintain to stay on top in that world. Intel stopped being paranoid.
- UncleOxidant 2y agoMore like 2 decades. They took that whole 90s Wintel monopoly for granted thinking the easy money would keep rolling in forever. A cautionary tale for Nvidia.
- throwup238 2y agoNVIDIA has taken that cautionary tale to heart! They rode the gamer -> scientific -> crypto -> AI wave like a champ and at this point their mote on the training GPU side feels insurmountable. Their competitors’ saving grace is that it’s much easier to port inference code to other GPUs.
- hilbert42 2y agoIt's important that Intel continues to be successful not because I've any love for the company which I haven't but because it's essential that it does so for US manufacturing. If for nothing else Intel has to be viable for strategic reasons. I've never liked Intel since the days when it partnered with AMD to make 'complementary' chips and it broke that agreement leaving AMD to struggle for decades (it's why whenever given the opportunity I've always chosen AMD chips). Who remembers the double-page ads in Electronics and Electronics Design with Intel ads on one page and AMD on the opposite stating that their designs complemented each other? (Seems to me if that partnership had continued then US chip manufacturing may well have unassailable.) I don't like Intel nor its lousy ethics but it has to succeed as bigger issues are at stake.