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Damn. I though this thread was being hyperbolic but they really wrote it like Intel will, for the first time in their history, making GPUs lmao

I guess the Arc a750 in my workstation is imaginary?

Slowpoke news

Am I living in an alternate timeline? They've been making GPUs for quite some time- and B580 was actually pretty good, incredibly good for the price.

The problem with intel. They never just keep going. They announce some new gpu/graphics product and when it falls short they don't or wont stick with it. They abandon it and use it as a write off. They have done this multiple times and I have no reason to believe they will do anything different. The last time was just a few years ago and when sales and performance lagged they just quit.

Like if ARC has never existed before?

I had to check the date on the article. They've been making GPUs for 3 years now, but I guess this announcement--although weird--is a sign that Arc is here to stay, which is good news.

Tom Peterson, who's been working at Intel for half a decade: Am I a joke to you

Well that article was a waste of space. Intel has already stepped into the GPU market with their ARC cards, so at the very least the article should contain a clarification on what the CEO meant.

And I see people shitting on the arc cards. The cards are not bad. Last time I checked the B580 had performance comparable to the 4060 for half the cost. The hardware is good, it's simply meant for budget builds. And of course the drivers have been an issue, but drivers can be improved and last time I checked Intel is actually getting better with their drivers. It's not perfect but we can't expect perfect. Even the gold standard of drivers, Nvidia, has been slipping in the last year.

All is to say, I don't understand the hate. Do we not want competition in the GPU space? Are we supposed to have Nvidia and AMD forever until AMD gives up because it becomes too expensive to compete with Nvidia? I'd like it to be someone else than Intel but as long as the price comes down I don't care who brings it down.

And to be clear, if Intels new strategy is keeping the prices as they are I'm all for "fuck Intel".

Oh no, Nvidia's pet is rebelling. Maybe they should be remindes of their current status

What the fuck? What kind of idiotic article is that? Did Techcrunch go down the drain too?

I don't know if "GPUs" is the right term, but the only area where we're seeing large gains in computational capacity now is in parallel compute, so I'd imagine that if Intel intends to be doing high performance computation stuff moving forward, they probably want to be doing parallel compute too.

Doesn't Nvidia have $5bi stakes of intel? I wonder how that influences their decisions.