Nvidia eclipses Intel as most valuable U.S. chipmaker - Reuters 📦

60    09 Jul 2020 14:31 by u/bluetoad

20 comments

3 u/trickleyum 09 Jul 2020 14:39
I thought Intel was Israeli. It's usually on every boycott list whenever they annex some new land.
1 u/None 12 Jul 2020 16:24
Intel Fab 28 is located in Israel. Intel has many facilities all around the world. The 10nm Intel process was largely developed in Israel I believe.
1 u/trickleyum 12 Jul 2020 17:11
Aah thanks. I was pretty far off though.
2 u/PZORN 09 Jul 2020 15:35
Wow, Intel has really lost its way over the last 10-15 years.
1 u/_Account_nyi 09 Jul 2020 23:00
Mostly the last 5 or so - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intel-spending-300-million-to-bolster-women-and-mi/1100-6424509/ Grove stepped down as chairman in 2005 though, so that would fit your timetable.
1 u/bluetoad [OP] 09 Jul 2020 23:46
It is also that NVidia has found a new major source of income. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/04/nvidia-acquires-cumulus-networks/
2 u/Ephialtes 09 Jul 2020 16:01
Intel dropped the ball hard
1 u/Oswald 09 Jul 2020 15:17
I just wish NVidia would be nicer to Linux environments. Lack of drivers, for Linux, in 2020? It’s crazy to me.
10 u/NeonDiscoKittens 09 Jul 2020 15:27
They don't see profit from doing it, which is too bad since they are alienating people and in turn losing money. A lot of people buy Radeon for their driver support in Linux.
1 u/kilkidd 09 Jul 2020 21:20
Why are you using Linux in 2020?
1 u/sp00n 10 Jul 2020 09:50
Because Linux is a particle accelerator and Windows and Mac are just Duplo. Did you seriously ask that or are you trying to be ironic or something?
1 u/kilkidd 10 Jul 2020 22:42
Lol, ok.
1 u/CloudPixel 10 Jul 2020 21:24
Windows 10 has given me far too many headaches over the years compared to Linux for me to use it again.
1 u/kilkidd 10 Jul 2020 22:42
windows 10 does suck. Xp/7 were far superior.
1 u/vincydroid 09 Jul 2020 17:01
that's what you get for being stuck in 2011 for 6 years i guess
2 u/_Account_nyi 09 Jul 2020 23:00
That's what you get for pursuing diversity instead of technical excellence. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/intel-spending-300-million-to-bolster-women-and-mi/1100-6424509/ Imagine if they'd invested that 300 million dollars in making better silicon?
1 u/Juice 09 Jul 2020 17:05
Stonks go upppppppp
1 u/Pogchampkingv2 09 Jul 2020 23:21
Intel is only good if you want to shell out money for a very high end computer. The mid-end chips are usually quite expensive for their performance.
1 u/wagesj45 12 Jul 2020 05:47
I think it's safe to say that this is because of CUDA's mass use in AI development. AI is **the** next big thing, for all fields everywhere. Some people doubt what it can do, but they're wrong. We're in the baby stages and we already have some incredible models like [StyleGAN](https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan) and [Jukebox](https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/). And this is all possible on consumer grade hardware that you can go out to BestBuy and pick up off the shelf. [Dedicated chips designed for AI](https://coral.ai/) are already available. And even though model creation is currently pretty costly in terms of resources, the barrier-to-entry is going to plummet as time goes by. Last year, I volunteered to be a judge at a local science fair. Two of the projects done by highschoolers involved training custom AI models to detect diseases in normal, off the shelf medical imaging. One of the projects had a working demo on his *phone* that detected cancer in lung x-rays.
1 u/None 12 Jul 2020 16:25
Keep in mind that Intel still dwarfs NVIDIA in terms of revenue. Intel is five times bigger than AMD and NVIDIA combined.