Allen
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Intel has unveiled its new long term strategy for CPUs and GPUs.
Interestingly, it seems Intel technical leaders are ex-AMD employees -- who now have more money to work with. I always said to myself, Intel could just "buy" AMD. What they did was buy some of the AMD technical leaders -- and more importantly the ideas that perhaps were being worked at AMD.
Having AMD type ideas built with Intel money and resources will definitely advance things faster for users like us. Hopefully, AMD and Nvidia will provide the competition to keep prices affordable.
Here's one of the many articles on multiple sites today. Basically, the new leaders have a new 5 year plan that they expect to start producing products for sale in 2020 (however, these won't be the very advanced ones coming in 5 years).
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Intel Architecture Day 2018: Raja Koduri’s Commentary and Vision For Intel
At Intel’s recent Architecture Day, Raja Koduri [formerly of AMD GPU fame], Intel’s senior vice president of Core and Visual Computing, outlined a strategic shift for the company’s design and engineering model. .. [it] will be anchored across six strategic pillars:
