Monday, September 12th 2022
Intel's Raja Koduri Refutes Rumors About Company Cancelling Arc Graphics
Intel's accelerated computing group head Raja Koduri, who heads the team behind the Arc "Alchemist" graphics, on late-Sunday, refuted rumors about the company shutting down the Arc graphics product line. Responding to a question to that effect on Twitter, Koduri tweeted "we are shrugging about these rumors as well. They don't help the team working hard to bring these to market, they don't help the PC graphics community..one must wonder, who do they help?..we are still in first gen and yes we had more obstacles than planned to overcome, but we persisted."
Rumors about Intel dropping the axe on Arc have been around for some time now, after repeated delays in getting the products to market, limited regional launches; and gathered steam as Intel closed down the Optane Memory business last quarter. Last week, after Intel presented a less-than-perfect outlook for its processor business hinted that it could exit "other" unprofitable businesses.
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Raja Koduri (Twitter)
Rumors about Intel dropping the axe on Arc have been around for some time now, after repeated delays in getting the products to market, limited regional launches; and gathered steam as Intel closed down the Optane Memory business last quarter. Last week, after Intel presented a less-than-perfect outlook for its processor business hinted that it could exit "other" unprofitable businesses.
81 Comments on Intel's Raja Koduri Refutes Rumors About Company Cancelling Arc Graphics
Spending on development and making money on said development are two separate but related things. I just commented on the former and made no comment on the later. You cannot contradict yourself when only talking about one side of the equation.Edit: withdrawn. I did comment on Itanium having a good run.
must be nice living in a corporate welfare state, that prides itself at night before bed about being about the free markets, while simultaneously denying the welfare state for the core things humans need to be affordable: transportation, food, healthcare, education. :roll:
At least some investors will stay in to ride it out while others will be in it for quick gains as you put it.
Speaking of how you put it, was stated as an absolute amongst ALL owners of stock regardless but that's not correct at all, there are investors and then there are investors.
What I'm seeing is it depends on how things go.
The number of investors involved based on whether they are short or long term investors will have an effect too. If there is a majority of short investors that want to bail then it's trouble for sure, if there is a majority of long term investors they'll tend to (But not neccesarily) ride it out, however the REAL factor out of these two investment camps is....
Who has the most money.
Even a single investor, regardless of which side they are on (Short or long term) can sway things - Just ask Buffett about that.
He IS the type if something isn't profitable, he'll do away with it without any hesitation about it.
Just look at Optane, denied rumours in March but then killed it in July.
And just last week Gelsinger himself talked about killing of other divisions while focusing on it's core business...
If they continue the program, they have to continue to spend en R&D, pay for mask at fabs, pay for the drivers teams to support all those sku, etc.
some of the cost can be shifted to the iGPU but not all. At some point it's not worth it if they don't plan to invest enough to compete.
I think Intel have 2 flaw here.
1). they wanted to become a market leader right away and went big from start and faced many issue upfront. I think they should have try at least to beat AMD iGPU to start with and start small and every gen, get a bit bigger while learning the process and improving the drivers. But intel can't stand to not be the top performer.
2. Intel just grew too fast and hired way too much. It take a lot of time to build a team and get good at doing something and adding too much people complicate things, It's much easier to add 1-2 guy at the time in a well running teams than trippling the teams with news guys from everywhere.
I still think that if intel cancel Arc, that is a mistake for them. They need that to stay relevant in the future.
And if their opinion is based on the facts they mentioned, its not meritless.
But, whatever it means, TT, CB, etc. did not need to take things personal, and lose their integrity at the same time (obviously, they did here for no damn apparent reason but only *feeling entitled* to Intel's products, first, but Intel had chosen Linus instead for its Arc exclusive revealing :laugh:) and activate an Intel smear campaign since the early part of the summer.
Intel would absolutely scale back a project if the board decided it wasn't going to be profitable enough.. Doesn't matter how great it would be to have a third competitor, if the shareholders aren't seeing dollar signs there's always going to be a chance the division will face intense scrutiny. How eloquently put ;)
:(
Xeon Phi aka Knights xxxx series wasn't that bad as a Larrabee offspring. The main focus is to bring Sapphire Rapids finally. All other things might shift in one way or the other, and it wouldn't be the first time to axe something before it really started.
Itanium also made money because HP paid for its life support.
Stop the back-and-forth personal bickering/insulting/arguing.