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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by epistasis on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:07PM (#42312108)
Rather than tackling the entire market at once, they could start with one section and build from there. NVIDIA didn't get to where it was in a year, it took many strategic acquisitions. (All the networking and other HPC-specialized stuff I was buying a decade ago has seemingly been bought by NVIDIA).

Start by being a "second vendor" for huge customers of NVIDIA that want to foster competition, as well as a few others willing to take risks, and build from there.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by tw04 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @07:59PM (#42313478)
Intel has already bought and killed everything they need to compete here. They seem incapable of sticking to any market that isn’t x86. Likely because when they were making those acquisitions they were drunk on margin and didn’t want to focus anywhere else.
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by ryao on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:48AM (#42314782)
Killing QLogic’s infiniband business after buying it was a major loss for the industry.
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by RobotToaster on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @03:39AM (#42315614)
> They seem incapable of sticking to any market that isn’t x86

Even within that they seem to have difficulty expanding to new areas, remember edison?

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