News Intel Poaches Top AMD GPU Architect to Lead Xe Development

[Admin]

Vineet Goel joins Intel as vice president of GPU architecture and IP engineering.

Intel Poaches Top AMD GPU Architect to Lead Xe Development : Read more

 

[evdjj3j]

Bringing back one of the old i740 guys how appropriate.

 

[MoxNix]

The Intel way, if you can't steal it buy it.

 

[Groveling_Wyrm]

The Intel way, if you can't steal it buy it.

That is the way ANY company will do it, not just Intel. Many other companies have done exactly that. See IBM, See Nvidia, See Microsoft, See AMD. How do you think AMD got Lisa Su to be their CEO? They poached her, by promising her the CEO position.

 

[husker]

One way to look at this is that competition is good and this will give consumers another option. I'm all for that. Another way is to wonder if the gaming ecosystem will want to play along or be dragged kicking and screaming the whole way. Will game developers want to support yet another set of manufacturer specific hardware optimizations? Will it use FreeSync or go the Nvidia G-Sync route with an intel specific "I-Sync" specification that monitor manufactures will need to support? Are card manufactures (ASUS, EVGA, MSI, etc.) going to take on the risk of splitting their inventory and manufacturing of mid to high end cards between Nvidia, AMD, and Intel instead of just the current two? There's a whole ecosystem out there that is going to have to adapt, and is going to need a reason to adapt other than to just offer more of the same with an Intel sticker on it.

 

[renz496]

One way to look at this is that competition is good and this will give consumers another option

competition is just an illusion at this point.