Death to strap-ons, says Intel, yet thrusts its little AI stick into us all Intel, having accepted the inevitable, has dropped out of the wearables and fitness band game, and canned the teams working on that strap-on tech. Now it's shifted its attention to the next thing it will presumably quickly lose interest in: a USB stick for running machine-learning workloads. Having read between the lines over …
Intel, manufacturers of the most advanced heating elements on the planet.
As for their latest thing am I the only one who's thinking "solution in search of a problem"
Intel is a fascinating company to watch. SoA chip fabs and laser focused on the x86 ISA.
But
Once you get away from their near monopoly product, and the SoA fabs it funds, it's like a headless chicken with an open wallet. No one seems to have a helicopter view. All tactics, no strategy.
Once you get away from their near monopoly product, and the SoA fabs it funds, it's like a headless chicken with an open wallet. No one seems to have a helicopter view. All tactics, no strategy.
Totally untrue; They have a strategy! ... Fling shit at te wall & see what sticks :)
Intel is a behemoth, it won't go down quickly. But there are clear cracks in the foundation. Intel is clearly in panic mode over Ryzen/Epyc. So much so that they have to play mind games. The advantage Intel has there is better marketing marketing and managements tend to be Intel fanboys. But what Ryzen/Epyc is doing is fantastic. AMD is reportedly having very high yields on 8 core Ryzen parts and thanks to Infinity Fabric, AMD can 'glue' (Intel's words) 4 of them together cheaply. For AMD to get a 16 core Epyc/Threadripper, they just need to select two of the many good 8 core parts. For Intel to get a 16 core Xeon, they need to pray to God they get one of the batch since they don't 'glue' together cores. What is more, the Intel's have few advantages in performance now.
The problem is right now, Intel cannot compete on price. AMD can make a ton of profit and still undercut Intel. From the leaks of i9 that I have seen, the more cores there are, the slower the chip. Would you be willing to pay $5000 more for faster AVX-512? Only if you use it everyday. Intel is in panic mode because of the FUD they have been spreading. You can only live off your name for so long. They know AMD has a winner again, and this time the OEM's are fanboys.
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