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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.