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Right now, for the US national interests, our biggest concern is that Intel continues to exist. Intel has been making crappy GPUs for 25 years. They weren’t g
by JustExAWS 1y ago
Right now, for the US national interests, our biggest concern is that Intel continues to exist. Intel has been making crappy GPUs for 25 years. They weren’t going to start making great GPUs now.
Besides, who would actually use them if they don’t support CUDA?
Everyone designs better GPUs than Intel - even Apple’s ARM GPUs have been outpacing Intel for a decade even before the M series.
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago> They weren’t going to start making great GPUs now. But that's exactly what they started doing with Battlemage? It's competitive in its price range and was showing generational strides. > Besides, who would actually use them if they don’t support CUDA? ML is starting to trend away from CUDA towards Vulkan, even on Nvidia hardware, for practical reasons (e.g. performance overhead).
- JustExAWS 1y agoIntel has been trying to make decent GPUs for 25+ years. No company is going to invest billions buying Intel GPUs - especially not the hyper scalers.
- tensor 1y agoWhy does it matter if Intel exists if they can't compete? AMD exists. The only point of hoping they remain is to create an environment of competition as that drives development and progress. Though fair and free markets is not at all what the current regime in the US believes in, instead it will be consolidation, leading waste, and little innovation and progress.
- JustExAWS 1y agoAMD doesn’t have a foundery. They are irrelevant.
- tensor 1y agoWell, I guess enjoy using your 3rd world Intel GPUs. A shitty foundery is irrelevant.
- JustExAWS 1y agoIntel isn’t that far behind. But it is dumb to depend on fabs in a country that is just one Chinese missile away from getting destroyed.
- iszomer 1y agoAnd why would they when TSMC is in both China and the US in some fashion?
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoAnd Taiwan is forbidding TSMC from building their cutting edge fabs in the US… https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-to-make-2nm-chips-abroad-for-now https://www.asiafinancial.com/taiwan-says-tsmc-not-allowed-t... That may have changed since then. But do you really want to depend on a foreign government for chip manufacturing?
- iszomer 1y agoAs Taiwan should, it's their prerogative. People often think when global policy changes abruptly everything stops; in reality, the contrary is true: supply chains and demands shift. For what it's worth, its TSMC's expertise in semiconductor manufacturing that has been loaned to the US, not bought, settled, and forgotten.
- iamtedd 1y agoThat's most of the world, including the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Missile_ranges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...