Technology

I'm becoming tired of Pat's whining every other week. You don't hear Lisa Su crying about Nvidia (or Intel for that matter) just being lucky, spouting this woe is me bullshit. You hear her, and Jensen, shutting up unless they have something meaningful to show.

I've noticed this in a lot of Intel slides and presentations recently - they talk more about their competitor's products than they do their own!

Perhaps if intel had branched out into GPUs earlier than they did, while they still had mountains of money to do so, they could've leveraged the AI boom.

But what did they do? They spaffed billions up the wall on stupid acquisitions like fucking McAfee Antivirus.

Rather than swallowing their pride and using their manufacturing and CPU design skills to make ARM mobile CPUs, they engaged in the stupid decision to pay phone manufacturers to use x86 CPUs that simply weren't efficient enough for mobile use. Needless to say, they all flopped hard.

They let their foundries and design teams rot to the extent that AMD, a dying company, was able to surpass them.

Now they're struggling to release CPUs without them being 6 months to a year late. Sometimes they don't release at all (where is desktop Meteor Lake, Intel?); that's their bread and butter product, FFS! If Intel can't do CPUs, what can they do?!

Intel deserves everything they're getting right now. Them getting left behind in AI is a problem entirely of their own making.