Who knows, but I know AMD is not in a position to be caught with their pants down like Intel. But I doubt they will be complacent.
Quickly? It took AMD forever to catch up. I get your point though caught up with a single release. Do you see that happening with Intel?
if you consider 5 1/2 years to be quickly.
None of those need full x16 (apart from some high end video capture, which I would not count as consumer). I already mentioned storage, USB is built into the chipset, and ethernet falls under the "miscellania" which can be serviced with an x1 or x2 link.
USB in the chipset is implemented using PCIe internally. Oh, and Thunderbolt can use 8 lanes.
How many other consumer applications of it need a full X16 Gen3 link? Sound is in the chipset, WiFi is getting integrated into the chipset... Leave an X4 link for storage, couple of X1 links for miscellania, and you're done.
They already do that, console semi-custom designs are merely beefy APUs.
ARM is not going to do anything even to 15W market.
Riding the meme learning boom. It's a bubble that will eventually pop.
Yeah, we can add Team Blue...I welcome our new graphic card overlords.
When one company (AMD) keeps on slacking and cant offer much competition , its good that someone see an opportunity to try and take over some marketshare
Yeah, we can add Team Blue...
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GPUs are only ever useful and ML/DL and some HPC tasks.Intel's is just reacting to compute market shifting from CPUs to GPUs.
I wouldn't call hitting the reticle limit "getting started".GPUs on the other hand are just getting started.
2007-today, still waiting™.GPUs start taking over the gravy train in the datacenter (soon)
Intel's is just reacting to compute market shifting from CPUs to GPUs. CPUs have hit a wall, meaning it's only a matter of time before AMD and others catch up and commoditize that market. GPUs on the other hand are just getting started. The problem is that gluing your CPU to a 2nd ranked competitor's GPU is not a GPU strategy. It's a tactic at the fringes, a hail Mary pass. Intel beancounters don't have the stomach for a real GPU strategy. A real GPU strategy would mean that after being wrong about GPUs for decades, Intel would have to believe they have the best vision for what the GPUs look like in five to ten years, and bet the company on that vision. Not dabble in GPUs until they need to cut costs to meet earnings expectations. Not play anticompetitive games to try to force customers to buy whatever crap GPU they make. Have the right vision, commitment to it and perseverence through thick and thin over many many years of losses. I don't think Intel has it in them. Once their CPUs come under competitive pressure (now) and GPUs start taking over the gravy train in the datacenter (soon), Intel management will start cost cutting to keep up short term profits for Wall Street.
As if the people writing distributed computing software are the same people doing hardcore electrical engineering and ASIC design... the venn diagram for overlap there is smallWith Google, Facebook, DL startups, etc, top engineering talent in parallel computing is not exactly lining up to join Intel to work on yet another GPU attempt. GPUs will always play second fiddle to CPUs at Intel. Top talent doesn't like playing second fiddle.
These companies are all building their own hardware ASICs.As if the people writing distributed computing software are the same people doing hardcore electrical engineering and ASIC design... the venn diagram for overlap there is small
Small skunkworks teams are, at companies that employ thousands. Im sure theres a tiny little bit of overlap, not enough to make any macroeconomic differenceThese companies are all building their own hardware ASICs.
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Intel may have packaged up an EMIB commercial proof of concept, using a Radeon dGPU chip but you can bet that future integrated designs from Intel will be all Intel once they get their dGPU ready, and AMD will be packaging all AMD solutions.
Where does that leave NVidia? Mostly on the outside without a CPU partner for laptops.
NVidia dGPUs will pushed to the niche hardcore Gamer Laptops, that run GTX 1070+
So the real loser here is NVidia, not AMD.
With the piddly IPC increases, sub-par TIM, and Meltdown/Spectre, maybe this will finally make proud engineers at IntelMan... Those are lame code names for a GPU. They need something like "Rampage" (an old 3dfx codename) or "Groove Chicken" (because it just sounds cool)
Man... Those are lame code names for a GPU. They need something like "Rampage" (an old 3dfx codename) or "Groove Chicken" (because it just sounds cool)
It's not rocket science, each generation the card prices is hiked over the previous gen.Each year since then Nvidia has made more money than the previous. They're doing better than ever now.
How about 3D Rage Pro?
Yeah, you gotta figure that mining performance is a concern for any modern GPU at this point, even if the chip makers want their products to be used for gaming. Something for the “Project Groove Chicken” engineers to think about, anyway.