Bondrewd
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Yeah.Open question about intel is do they stay on the ball and do this long term. They have habbit of starting strong and then exiting. Tablets, phones, iot,... says hello
Besides, they have core markets to worry about.
Yeah.Open question about intel is do they stay on the ball and do this long term. They have habbit of starting strong and then exiting. Tablets, phones, iot,... says hello
Even though Larabee failed one could say they evolved it into Xeon Phi, but as a hybrid competitor the Phi coprocessor/accelerator did not have much traction say compared to interest in GPU accelerators and so has been EOL'd last quarter.Open question about intel is do they stay on the ball and do this long term. They have habbit of starting strong and then exiting. Tablets, phones, iot,... says hello
Graphics, too. Larrabee also says hello. And now if they laid off a lot of their graphics engineers I dunno how they plan to build discrete devices, much less high-end ones. Kadouri won't be able to pull the whole load himself.Open question about intel is do they stay on the ball and do this long term. They have habbit of starting strong and then exiting. Tablets, phones, iot,... says hello
You're assuming he's merely human, a fatal flaw in your logic. <sagely nods>And now if they laid off a lot of their graphics engineers I dunno how they plan to build discrete devices, much less high-end ones. Kadouri won't be able to pull the whole load himself.
In fact I heard from trustworthy source that he actually hand-drew a full blown ultimate GPU on napkins while in India before the sabattical, but it required Intels process to be manufactured so he had to jump ships. Now they're already half way done making the new GPU from those napkins.You're assuming he's merely human, a fatal flaw in your logic. <sagely nods>
Don't expect EUV insertion before 2020.I just wish that the globalfoundries 7nm LP EUV2 is ready at 2019, for the 25x20 monster APU can be achieved.
We lost around 50-60% of one of our R&D tech product team to another tech company collaborating with us when the senior lead engineer jumped to them and then targetted others involved in the development, they went from having nothing to 3 years later a product that competed moderately well to another 2 years after that being a serious competitive headache; this was an incredibly complex technology to develop from scratch - cannot say much more than this otherwise would start to become too specific.Graphics, too. Larrabee also says hello. And now if they laid off a lot of their graphics engineers I dunno how they plan to build discrete devices, much less high-end ones. Kadouri won't be able to pull the whole load himself.
Don't expect EUV insertion before 2020.
That's on paper & pure promises.I just expect this 2020 EUV insertion is the EUV2 from the Anandtech article. TSMC will already have this 7nm EUV2 ready at 2019....
well from many internet reports, Raja is described as acting for him self, not a team player...Working on a new fresh project with high levels of resourcing and under someone like Raja will appeal to quite a few;
Well, he invented texture compression, which is part of DXTC standard today. He also came with interesting solutions to substitute broken or missing features. E.g. custom filters for anti-aliasing or CrossFire.Moreover, I'm curious to know what exactly are his achievements.
Result of this „not groundbreaking task“ was, that Apple's SoCs had faster GPUs than competitors'.At Apple, he basically integrated Imagination PowerVR into iPhone SoC. Not a groundbreaking task...
Define "fiasco", please. AMD is able to sell every manufactured Vega. Let me remind the reason, why AMD fired Rory Read: AMD had a lot of products with not really bad reviews, but nobody bought them. AMD and distributors had stock of unsalable GPUs, which lost value, AMD had to offer financial compensation and lost money. Vega and Polaris doesn't have great reviews, but it sells quite well. By the way, Koduri announced his decision just a few days after Kaby Lake-G announcement. AMD's GPU in Intel's CPU is also unprecedented achievement.Finally at AMD, he gave up after Vega fiasco lunch.
Well, duh, Read was sorta right, GPU division was not that profitable even in 2009-2010 while being a moneypit.What we see is a result of decreased budget for AMD's GPU division, result of Read's administration.
There are also other reports mentioning he is a genuinely nice guy.well from many internet reports, Raja is described as acting for him self, not a team player...
Moreover, I'm curious to know what exactly are his achievements. At S3, he ended up with Savage 2000 broken T&L. Not very glorious... At Apple, he basically integrated Imagination PowerVR into iPhone SoC. Not a groundbreaking task... Finally at AMD, he gave up after Vega fiasco lunch. Not something I will be proud of... I don't know the guy, I have nothing against him, he's surely something special to get these high profile jobs, but from the cold outside facts, I don't see what the hype is about...
What would Polaris and Vega sales look like without cryptomining though?Vega and Polaris doesn't have great reviews, but it sells quite well.
What would Polaris and Vega sales look like without cryptomining though?
That's why one should never trust Wall Street monkeys for anything technology-related.BTW, I find it facinating how every day there are still, STILL! financial “analysis” articles being published drawing inferences about AMD and Nvidia financial performance based on Bitcoin price.