alan81
5 hours ago
As a guess, the foundry will merge with Samsung, creating a duopoly of the combined company and TSMC in the high end foundry space.
Intel took several shots at AI and failed at all of them. Habana, Nirvana, and Ponte Vecchio have all failed. I was astounded by how bad PV turned out to be.
The current product stack is just mediocre with Arrow lake and Granite Rapids on leading edge processes being outperformed by AMD products.
Panther lake on Intel_18A is officially very late 2025 or early 2026. When PG said "manufacturing ready" I thought he meant process certified, but it appears he meant something about a year before that milestone.
The few bright spots now are the much improved GPU's and the very low power Lunar Lake. Unfortunately both will have limited revenue and limited profitability.
Alan
Koog
22 hours ago
An excerpt from The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim, quoting Gelsinger:
“As for GPUs, current Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger laments that the company failed to break into the category with its own in-house product that would have competed with Nvidia’s. “I had a project called Larrabee that, when I was pushed out of Intel, got killed shortly thereafter,” he said. “The world would be different today had that not occurred.” Gelsinger had been an executive champion of the project and headed the enterprise-computing division at Intel before he left in 2009 for the data-storage company EMC. The Larrabee GPU was canceled in 2010, and Intel did not restart its GPU efforts until 2018."
I applaud your work at Boeing and Northrop. I am an Intel retiree, starting there in 1982. Trust me, Intel is not in the enviable position you infer. The Board of Directors has driven the company into the abyss. It was the BOD that allowed Otollini to walk away from the iPhone opportunity. It was the BOD that allowed Krzanich to literally destroy Intel's core competencies. I thought Gelsinger was Intel's last hope. Now he is gone. I have been diversifying my INTC holdings since Krzanich was appointed. I will do the same with what is left this tax year.
Koog
1 day ago
It is sparking my optimism.
Well then, you must be easily sparked. Gelsinger was shown the door at Intel on December 1, not long after this video was published.
Intel hasn't said much about what's going to happen since then. Now, a long form interview with Zinsner and Holthaus (interim co-CEO's) or even better, their permanent replacement (who hasn't been chosen yet), that would get my attention.
Jmach101
3 weeks ago
"Prices for Intel’s Arc B580 are already shooting through the roof" article in Yahoo finance.
Prices for Intel’s Arc B580 are already shooting through the roof
Jacob Roach
Fri, December 13, 2024 at 10:07 AM EST·3 min read
Intel just launched its new $249 Arc B580 graphics card, and as you can read in our Intel Arc B580 review, it’s one of the best graphics cards you can buy. It seems PC gamers have gotten the memo, as most models of the card are sold out online. If you want to get one now, you’ll have to spend close to double the list price.
Looking at online retailers, it looks like Newegg has the most models listed for sale, though almost all of them are sold out. The only models available come from Gunnir, and they’re both very expensive. The Arc B580 Index is listed for $379, while the Arc B580 Photon is listed for $429. Both are sold by third-party sellers — they aren’t sold and shipped by Newegg — so I wouldn’t recommend spending up for one of these cards.
The other models listed for sale are much more reasonable, but they’re all out of stock. Here are the prices and when Newegg says the GPUs will be back in stock:
Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition — $250 (ETA: 1/3/25)
ASRock Challenger Arc B580 — $260 (ETA: 1/3/25)
ASRock Steel Legend Arc B580 — $270 (ETA: 1/3/25)
Sparkle Arc B580 Titan OC — $270 (No ETA)
Acer Nitro Arc B580 — $280 (ETA: 12/20/24)
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It’s worth checking in with online retailers throughout the day and over the weekend to see if the cards come back in stock. While writing this article, the Limited Edition model was back in stock at Newegg for just a few minutes before selling out again. If the demand is high, it’s possible additional inventory will be released throughout the day.
Although it’s impossible to say how much demand there truly is, scalpers are already capitalizing. On eBay, there are several models listed above $400, and they aren’t all the Gunnir models mentioned above. The Arc B580 is an excellent GPU, but it’s a pretty bad option at $400 or more. Scalpers are taking advantage of the glowing reviews the graphics card has received, so try to avoid these listings. Based on eBay’s sold page, it doesn’t look like anyone has fallen for them yet.
If you have a Micro Center near you, you’re in luck. Several locations have models in stock for list price, but you can only buy them in-store. Micro Center has exclusively sold graphics cards in-store for the past few years, and that usually means you can find GPUs at list price that are otherwise sold out online.
This kind of pricing is standard fare for a popular GPU launch, so don’t get too worried if you aren’t able to score a card at list price today. The pricing and stock situation can rapidly change in the days following the release of a new graphics card. Newegg and B&H Photo both offer stock notifications, so you’ll get an email whenever the GPU comes back in stock.
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