Really hoping the ARM acquisition can transform Nvidia from the inside, make them a responsible & cooperative partner.
AMD seems to be doing well.
Intel is indeed faltering, yes. Especially with process technology. Given what they've got to work with in the process department, they've been building neat good stuff. Xe just launched & in a mobile form factor is quite competitive, no longer leaving AMD APUs to dominate. These same mobile parts have far higher integration than anything AMD can offer, with dual USB4/TB4 ports good for 2 x 40Gbps. Intel has a range of neat things few others have. Intel has a pretty competent wifi that integrates nicely. Their new Tremot Atom cores are a great value, really nice light-weight cores, & scale up to 24 cores on expensive but interesting cellular radio platforms. Xeon-D is a wonderful connectivity platform that there is not much competition for. Alas Intel cancelled OmniPath, which was a brilliant thing to integrate & give away on server CPUs almost for free (~$100 on a >> $1000 chip). And alas the process tech really hampers big server cores, but intel has been getting more competitive.
At this point, Linux need competition. Nvidia thus-far has never played well, Linux4Tegra and CUDA are walled gardens & driver support is otherwise awful, still no good way to run Wayland. AMD is doing great & Linux support is very high. But we kind of need Intel to keep AMD from growing lethargic & un-competitive, from exploiting their new market position as, well, better.
AMD seems to be doing well.
Intel is indeed faltering, yes. Especially with process technology. Given what they've got to work with in the process department, they've been building neat good stuff. Xe just launched & in a mobile form factor is quite competitive, no longer leaving AMD APUs to dominate. These same mobile parts have far higher integration than anything AMD can offer, with dual USB4/TB4 ports good for 2 x 40Gbps. Intel has a range of neat things few others have. Intel has a pretty competent wifi that integrates nicely. Their new Tremot Atom cores are a great value, really nice light-weight cores, & scale up to 24 cores on expensive but interesting cellular radio platforms. Xeon-D is a wonderful connectivity platform that there is not much competition for. Alas Intel cancelled OmniPath, which was a brilliant thing to integrate & give away on server CPUs almost for free (~$100 on a >> $1000 chip). And alas the process tech really hampers big server cores, but intel has been getting more competitive.
At this point, Linux need competition. Nvidia thus-far has never played well, Linux4Tegra and CUDA are walled gardens & driver support is otherwise awful, still no good way to run Wayland. AMD is doing great & Linux support is very high. But we kind of need Intel to keep AMD from growing lethargic & un-competitive, from exploiting their new market position as, well, better.