Editorial Intel Should be Leading the AI Hardware Market: Pat Gelsinger on NVIDIA Getting "Extraordinarily Lucky"

[KLMR]

Intel had bad luck when launched their GPU lineup.

 

[theouto]

Great editorial piece! I agree wholeheartedly.
NVIDIA was always working to expand on all fronts, hardware and software, while Intel always seemed content by simply building hardware and not much else. And while intel was blinded by their own success and got complacent, NVIDIA, even while absolutely dominating their market, sought to make sure that they were the only dominant brand, which is why the market finds itself with NVIDIA being an almost monopoly in the accelerator space, though It seems like companies are beginning to catch up to them, thankfully.
Pat saying that it was luck is dumb, because if NVIDIA hadn't been prepared for that "luck", then nothing would've come from it, and if nvidia wasn't at the forefront, I highly doubt intel would be the one at the helm.

 

[pavle]

If nvidia is "extraordinarily lucky", then Intel is "too big to fail", which they most certainly are not.

 

[phanbuey]

To be fair, Pat says they are lucky not to have an X86 license which would have bogged them down. They had to develop their software base from scratch.

So it's not like he's saying they got lucky -- they were lucky to avoid a trap.

 

[thesmokingman]

If nvidia is "extraordinarily lucky", then Intel is "too big to fail", which they most certainly are not.

Speaking of lucky... Nvidia wasn't lucky. Jensen is a supreme genius in the art of making money with gpus. Pat is delusional as always.

Ironically, Intel WAS considered too big to fail back then. In 2015 when AMD was on its death bed, this was the REAL sentiment. Any minute now the coroner call the time on AMD's death certificate. And then AMD set out their plan to reverse the game staring with Mantle's eventual world domination, whom no one saw coming least of which Intel.

 

[remixedcat]

Speaking of lucky... Nvidia wasn't lucky. Jensen is a supreme genius in the art of making money with gpus. Pat is delusional as always.

Ironically, Intel WAS considered too big to fail back then. In 2015 when AMD was on its death bed, this was the REAL sentiment. Any minute now the coroner call the time on AMD's death certificate. And then AMD set out their plan to reverse the game staring with Mantle's eventual world domination, whom no one saw coming least of which Intel.

And ryzen and threadripper too!! I want a threadripper rig some day