Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by mnau on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:56PM (#42301244)

China doesn't care. They are banned from buying western AI HW or making their own AI HW at TSMC/Samsung. They are pouring hundreds of billions to the semiconductor ecosystem.

Huawei is trying to make establish domestic Ascend/MindSpore ecosystem, but they are limited by the SMIC process (~7nm). Amount of defects is allegedly rather high, but they are the only "official" game in town (other than smuggled NVIDIA cards or outsourced datacenters in Middle East).

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Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by corimaith on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:50AM (#42304209)

Then the point about China trying to block a Nvidia merger doesn't really sense if they will be going their own path anyways. It would exist to try to harm Nvidia before their homegrown alternatives ramp up.

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Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger by mnau on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:17AM (#42305001)

Nvidia is only one side of merger. The other is Intel. Intel does sell processors in China. Only AI is banned, not generic CPU (except HPC).

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