How come whenever Intel dGPUs are talked about, everyone completely fails to mention that Intel is having them produced at TSMC which means that these videocards will do absolutely NOTHING to alleviate supply shortages, and therefore absolutely NOTHING to lower prices...it'll just force an already carved up pie to be carved up into even smaller segments. Now if Intel was going to have them produced at their own fabs, that's be a totally different story and something to look forward to, but as it stands now,I honestly do not see a single reason to get excited about these cards regardless of how they perform...what's the point of having another sold out, overpriced brand [not] available?
While on the topic, this is yet one of many reasons why enthusiasts should be rather displeased with Intel using TSMC for any products, CPU or GPU, it's just going to make things worse in both markets. Don't even get me started on CPUs, but nobody should be happy about Intel stealing capacity away from AMD. It's just another instance of Intel leaning on their financial power to beat AMD instead of out innovating them...I never miss a chance to mention the fact that Intel's annual R&D budget is over 650% larger and their annual revenue is over 800% larger than AMD's respectively...this is also the reason why nobody should be impressed by Alderlake outperforming over a year old Zen3 CPU by 10% or less on average, and why everybody should be impressed with AMD beating Intel for the last few years and why AMD's previous process node advantage serves as absolutely no excuse for Intel's mediocre performance based on how they literally have every single financial and resource advantage over AMD. In a just world, Intel should be forced to use their own fabs...at least until AMD achieves around 50% of the mobility (laptop) and enterprise x86 markets, the most lucrative x86 markets, which they are light-years away from. This is why, with respect to ensuring long term competition in the market, nobody should be claiming "it's great that Intel is competing again", especially considering that with the current shortages, nothing is lowering prices in the short term, and based on financial realities, AMD's current position is extremely precarious compared to Intel's. All it would take is a few years/a couple generations of supply shortage woes for AMD, even IF they have performance parity or even slightly beat intel, to stagnate AMD's revenue (something that Intel can easily weather), contract their market gains, and return us to the pre-ryzen dark ages of Intel hegemony, 4% generation over generation performance "gains", and overpriced CPUs that offer nothing over the previous one for all intents and purposes.
And the same thing can be said for the dGPU market as well, Intel doesn't truly represent a new competitor in the same way that a whole new entity would represent. Intel can easily throw around their financial weight in ways even worse than Nvidia has been guilty of, squeeze AMD out (which AMD I'm sure would have no problem abandoning and consolidating down to exclusively semi-custom and IP development for other companies), and leave us in an even worse position...can you imagine the cartels, monopolistic and uncompetitive practices Intel and Nvidia would engage in if left alone to their own devices in the videocard market?
Sorry for the rant, but I felt it necessary to counter the seeming universal praise I see for Intel entering the GPU market and stretching TSMC'S supply even thinner.
