Intel has one huge advantage tho, OneAPI already supports their existing CPUs and GPUs (Gen9-12 graphics), and it’s already cross platform available on Linux, MacOS and Windows this was the biggest failure of AMD no support for consumer graphics, no support for APUs which means laptops are cut out of the equation and Linux only which limits your commercial deployment to the datacenter and a handful of “nerds”.
The vast majority of CUDA applications don’t need 100’s of HPC cards to execute, consumers want their favorite video or photo editor to work, they want to be able to apply filters to their Zoom calls, students and researchers want to be able to develop and run POCs on their laptops as long as Adobe and the likes adopt OneAPI and as long as Intel will provide a backend for common ML frameworks like Pytorch and TF (which they already do) performance at that point won’t matter as much as you think.
Performance at this scale is a business question if AMD had a decent ecosystem but lacked performance they could’ve priced their cards accordingly and still captured some market share. Their problem was that they couldn’t actually release hardware in time, their shipments were tiny and they didn’t had the software to back it up.
Intel despite all the doom and gloom still ships more chips than AMD and NVIDIA combined if OneAPI is even remotely technically competent and from my very limited experience with it it is looking rather good Intel can offer developers a huge addressable market overnight with a single framework.
The vast majority of CUDA applications don’t need 100’s of HPC cards to execute, consumers want their favorite video or photo editor to work, they want to be able to apply filters to their Zoom calls, students and researchers want to be able to develop and run POCs on their laptops as long as Adobe and the likes adopt OneAPI and as long as Intel will provide a backend for common ML frameworks like Pytorch and TF (which they already do) performance at that point won’t matter as much as you think.
Performance at this scale is a business question if AMD had a decent ecosystem but lacked performance they could’ve priced their cards accordingly and still captured some market share. Their problem was that they couldn’t actually release hardware in time, their shipments were tiny and they didn’t had the software to back it up.
Intel despite all the doom and gloom still ships more chips than AMD and NVIDIA combined if OneAPI is even remotely technically competent and from my very limited experience with it it is looking rather good Intel can offer developers a huge addressable market overnight with a single framework.