Re: end of Intel?

On 2/21/2025 7:50 PM, John Larkin wrote:

  https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/intel_carveup/
 https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/18/silver-lake-set-buy-majority-stake-intels-altera-programmable-chip-business/
 Intel has tried so many things that failed. DRAM, bubble memory, CISC,
RISC, ARM, EUV, and now Altera.

Don't forget Atom!

All they ever did successfully was x86, basically the ancient 8008 (or
maybe 4004) architecture.
 

Their discrete GPUs offer pretty good bang for the buck at the low end. These $179 cards are amazing for the price, particularly for video production work and trans coding:
<https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-Challenger-256-bit-Design-Cooling/dp/B0CJGSP9R7/>
They could probably have a good bite of AMD and Nvidia's lunch if they tried but they're only about 1% of the GPU market share right now, and seem to be pretty unfocused about what direction they want to go in.