▲ 273 ▼ Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance (techcrunch.com) submitted 9 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 months ago (1 child) The USA owns 10% of the company, which might turn off some. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago This is a big part of it, imo. They kissed the ring. The other part of it is that, per the article, this is an “AI” pivot. This is not them making more consumer-oriented GPUs. Which is frustrating, because they absolutely could be a viable competitor in low-mid tier if they wanted to. But “AI” is (for now) much more lucrative. We’ll see how long that lasts. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago This is a big part of it, imo. They kissed the ring. The other part of it is that, per the article, this is an “AI” pivot. This is not them making more consumer-oriented GPUs. Which is frustrating, because they absolutely could be a viable competitor in low-mid tier if they wanted to. But “AI” is (for now) much more lucrative. We’ll see how long that lasts. permalink fedilink source parent