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> OpenAI was interested in an investment from Intel because it would have reduced their reliance on Nvidia's chips and allowed the startup to build its own infr
by talldayo 2y ago
> OpenAI was interested in an investment from Intel because it would have reduced their reliance on Nvidia's chips and allowed the startup to build its own infrastructure, two of the people said. The deal also fell through because Intel's data center unit did not want to make products at cost, the people added.
So... Intel "fell behind" by not giving away their product to a customer desperate to diversify? From the outside looking-in, this seems like an OpenAI problem.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoIntel fell behind the generative-AI market. Nvidia owns it. That's an Intel problem. (It may also be an OpenAI problem, but it's definitely a problem for Intel.)
- talldayo 2y agoHas Intel seriously competed with Nvidia? After OpenCL died it was pretty much CUDA versus the world. Nobody competes with Nvidia, because the train left the station while all their competition fought each-other. Samsung and AMD both have more to gain and everything to lose from letting Nvidia dominate; Intel doesn't have to compete with Nvidia because in the datacenter they are a compliment to their commodity. Intel's "product" isn't being replaced in the datacenter, AMD and Samsung's is. So much mental gymnastics go into making Intel's incompetence seem like a premeditated failure predicated on burning bridges with the industry. Of course they aren't going to sell silicon at-cost to Apple or OpenAI. That is called desperate stupidity, and we have the hindsight to prove that it wouldn't benefit them if they did agree to such a gambit.