Intel Discrete GPU demise is inevitable

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Intel announces the partnership with NVIDIA. The $5b 'bailout' deal seals the fate of Arc Discrete GPU ambition and Intel will ship CPU with NVIDIA GPU tech.

I was hoping that one day we might see 1st class driver for non-x86 Linux architecture... wishful thinking I know

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I wonder how this would affect someone that, say, wanted to license Imagination IP and fab a DXTP-based GPU at an Intel plant. Would Nvidia want Intel to say no? Would that be grounds for an anticompetitive lawsuit, or would Nvidia be in the clear if they're partially owners?

Also, I wonder if Nvidia's goal here is moreso Intel's fabs to try to compete with AMD on price given AMD would still be using TSMC, even if they have to prop them up for more competitive nodes.

I will say, kind of a shame. I'm interested in picking up something ARC for video rendering but it looks like that'll have to stay on Alchemist forever given Battlemage is midtier only and Celestial is put up in the air by this development.

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> I wonder how this would affect someone that, say, wanted to license Imagination IP and fab a DXTP-based GPU at an Intel plant. Would Nvidia want Intel to say no? Would that be grounds for an anticompetitive lawsuit, or would Nvidia be in the clear if they're partially owners?

I think the US government will pressure any company who dare to sue Intel and NVIDIA. We all know that Trump administration is very pro-Israeli so they won't let Intel go down. After all Trump was betting on Intel to bring back the chip fabrication capability, it is too risky to put all eggs in the Taiwanese bucket.