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It's worth mentioning that IIRC the team responsible for the Arc GPU drivers was located in Russia, and after the invasion of Ukraine they had to deal with relo
by dralley 2y ago
It's worth mentioning that IIRC the team responsible for the Arc GPU drivers was located in Russia, and after the invasion of Ukraine they had to deal with relocating the entire team to the EU and lost several engineers in the process. The drivers were the primary reason for the absolute failure of Arc.
Intel deserves a lot of blame but they also got hit by some really shit circumstances outside of their control.
- mnau 2y agoHe was CEO. Chief executing officer. It's literally his job to execute, i.e. fix that stuff/ensure it doesn't happen. Get them out of Russia, poach new devs, have a backup team, delay the product (i.e. no HVM until good drivers are in sight). That's literally his job. This only reinforces my previous point. He had good ideas, but couldn't execute.
- rvba 2y agoExecutive, not executing. On a side note getting people in russia write your drivers sounds a bit insane. Yea lower cost and probably ok quality, but the risks...
- jpadkins 2y agoCEO stands for Chief Executive Officer. a chief executive officer, the highest-ranking person in a company or other institution, ultimately responsible for making managerial decisions. Maybe you mean COO?
- Wytwwww 2y ago> shit circumstances outside of their control. They chose to outsource the development of their core products to a country like Russia to save costs. How was that outside of their control? It's not like it was the most stable or reliable country to do business in even before 2022...
- kgeist 2y agoRussia is reliable when it comes to software engineering. I've met a few guys from Intel Russia, bright folks. The politics, though...
- Wytwwww 2y agoIndividual Russian software developers might be reliable but that's hardly the point. They should've just moved them to US or even Germany or something like that if they were serious about entering the GPU market, though... e.g. There are plenty of talented engineers in China as well but it would be severely idiotic for any western company to move their core R&D there. Same applied to Russia.
- kgeist 2y agoWell, Intel Russia opened in 2000 back when USA and Russia were on good terms, and Putin was relatively unknown. Sure it was a mistake in hindsight...
- Wytwwww 2y agoI doubt they began working on ARC/XE drivers back in 2000. If the entire driver team being in Russia (i.e. Intel trying to save money) was truly the main reason why ARC failed on launch they really only have themselves to blame...
- lucianbr 2y agoI think if you're CEO of Intel, some foresight might be in order. Or else the ability to find a solution fast when things turn impredictibly sour. What did he get a $16mil salary for?
- kergonath 2y agoIt had been obvious for quite a while even before 2022. There were the Chechen wars, and Georgia in 2008, and Crimea in 2014. All the journalists and opposition politicians killed over the years, and the constant concentration of power in the hands of Putin. The Ukraine invasion was difficult to predict, but Russia was a dangerous place long before that. It’s a CEO’s job to have a strategic vision, there must have been contingency plans.