There was a flurry of activity in personnel, with staff moving between Intel and AMD some months ago and now Intel has confirmed plans to enter the discrete graphics card market in 2020, after Brian Krzanich told analysts at a private investors meeting. They will be aimed at data centre applications, but also consumer markets such as gaming and professional graphics. Following the news leaking, it was confirmed in a tweet.
Analyst Comment
This is, effectively a declaration of out and out war against Nvidia, which dominates the AIB market, although AMD is very aggressive in roadmapping a new GPU every year according to its comments at Comdex, while Nvidia is talking down the imminence of any new GPUs from that company.
It will be interesting to see what Intel can do if it is not bound by the constraints on memory and architecture that come from providing only integrated graphics, The company must have been very irritated that it missed out on all the crypto-currency mining GPU sales of recent years.
Adding another competitor is likely to make things even better for consumers! (BR)
