What They Say
Intel is abandoning its RealSense depth-sensing cameras to focus on its chip business, which The Information’s Reality Check sees as the “final nail in the coffin for Intel’s hardware efforts related to AR/VR”. The company had a number of projects in ‘spatial computing’ including ‘Project Alloy’ (although we reported on the end of that as long ago as 2017 Intel’s Project Alloy is Over). In 2018, the firm gave up on AR glasses and although it announced a shift of the RealSense technology to facial recognition, the return of Pat Gelsinger to the firm as CEO has meant a change in direction.
Intel is focusing on discrete GPUs and ‘chiplets’ – building big chips from smaller modules joined together. It is also working more tightly with Microsoft to better support multi-threading for improved performance in Windows. There was a good article by sometime contributor Bob O’Donnel, here.
What We Think
I’m looking forward to seeing if Intel really can, this time, get a respectable place in the standalone GPU market. It has failed more than once! (BR)
Intel chip developments – click for higher resolution
