The ax returns to Intel – and this time, it’s taking out the troubled chip giant’s Data Center Solutions Group (DSG). The group, which offered datacenter server designs that were popular in some regions outside North America, is having its portfolio sold to MiTAC, the Taiwanese parent company for well-known servermaker Tyan.
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DSG is just the latest casualty of Intel’s aggressive streamlining of its business. The company has exited a number of similarly peripheral markets over the past couple of years: Intel Optane memory, which ended with a $559 million inventory writeoff in July 2022; Intel Tofino network switches, which were part of the 2019 Barefoot Networks acquisition and were discontinued in January 2023; a $700-million “mega lab” focused on datacenter cooling, announced in May 2022 and also killed in January 2023; and the RISC-V Pathfinder program, announced in August 2022 and – you guessed it –
killed in January 2023.
The streamlining even hit closer to Intel’s core products with the
cancellation of the next-gen Max series GPU (codenamed Rialto Bridge) and the dramatic retargeting of the Falcon Shores “XPU,” which was slated to be a combo CPU-GPU (à la Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchip) but is
now planned as a GPU only.
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