Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed

[r1348]

Intel was marketing this for the datacenter, except that now all hyperscaler cloud operators make their own hardware. Anybody can slap an ARM core on a PCB.

[brad0]

The whole Movidius thing was a pretty wasted potential especially under Intel.

Intel has way too many examples of squandered potential with IP acquisitions.

[RZSN]

The whole Movidius thing was a pretty wasted potential especially under Intel. Those VPUs are pretty much general purpose computing cores - resembling similarities with GPUs but with much lower energy footprint. Yet they would be ideal to implement various sort of portable appliances - only if they would release the SDK and enable making own code for them. But no.. Intel choose to bundle a per-compiled AI specific software library that runs on the powerful VPU to cripple it to a totally useless brick for the all-mighty AI.

They are really not getting it, that they are not who shape the future, but actually the users drive the applications and needs?

I make cameras and the VPU was ideal for a lossless/lossy compression codec. But no, we can not make an ultimate camera system with it - we were only allowed to run some object detection crap on it or a depth calculator using two sensors. I am not interested in that. No wonder there is zero practical use for it.

What are they always afraid of? That it would be useful for some? And that same vibe goes over all useful products today.

[willmore]

"...and thanks for all the fish."

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed

I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled