Intel Outlines Arc A750 Graphics Card For $289, More Arc Graphics Details

[coder]

While there are many who think this is just going to go away, I rather doubt that. Intel has loads of money. They want to compete, not just to make more money, but also to deprive AMD of revenue.

Intel has a long history of canceling and divesting of projects. Like lots and lots. Too many to list here, but some some recent highlights from the past decade:

• Larrabee (previous attempt at GPUs, 13-14 years ago)
• IA64 (i.e. "Itanium" and its descendants)
• Phone SoC product line
• IoT SoC product line
• Xeon Phi
• OmniPath networking products
• Nervana AI products - a company they bought just a few years earlier.
• MobilEye self-driving products (spinoff)
• NAND SSDs (sold to Toshiba, actually)
• Optane memory

Each of those is probably a business they'd sunk more than $B into, by the time they washed their hands of it.

And that's not even counting the number of different x86 CPU variants and generations they've killed off, before they ever saw the light of day.

I think Intel can at least break even by offloading these onto OEMs for idiots to buy thinking it is good. And that will deprive AMD and Nvidia of a sale. That is all Intel is after right now.

They have to worry about their profit margins, which are typically pretty cushy (I think traditionally around 60%, which is extremely high for a hardware/chip company). Wall St. investors won't look kindly if they seem to be on a downward trend. And the investors ultimately control the company. Plus, they can sue Intel if they feel it's not acting in their best interests.

So, while Intel understands the need to invest in new businesses, there are definite limits to its patience. It can't just do something costly to spite AMD because AMD is a competitor. Everything Intel does ultimately has to be about its own self-interest (or, rather the interests of the shareholders). Furthermore, those activities have a limited time horizon before they start paying the expected return on investment.

[Eirikr1848]

When I’m not gaming or using my PC, I mine Ravencoin (KAWPOW algorithm) — I wonder how this performs with that using OpenCL

[Royi]

Will they have PyTorch and TensorFlow support on launch? Will the support be limited to Linux?

[coder]

Michael , JPFSanders , zexelon , pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx , loligans :

Does virtual machines hardware acceleration work with these GPUs? If so they are really interesting to me compared to AMD.

Hot news: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-a...novation-2022/

In the comments, at the bottom of the article, the author states:

Patrick Kennedy October 4, 2022 At 4:38 am
They said at the event that there would be a difference in SR-IOV between data center and consumer cards but did not get into specifics.

[darkbasic]

Michael , JPFSanders , zexelon , pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx , loligans :



Hot news: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-a...novation-2022/

In the comments, at the bottom of the article, the author states:

Patrick Kennedy October 4, 2022 At 4:38 am
They said at the event that there would be a difference in SR-IOV between data center and consumer cards but did not get into specifics.

That's some really good news! Maybe after all I will buy an ARC graphic card