Intel reportedly considers axing its Discrete GPU division

I hope it doesn't shut down, The AMD/Nvidia duopoly desperately needs to be broken up, Lots of varied market competition is good, It drives advancement and keeps prices from shooting up to ridiculous levels we see currently.
 
I wonder how things would have been if 3DFX was never bought out and shutdown.

Even the intro logo was fascinating to watch :D
 
I honestly didn't think drivers would be such a massive undertaking, I guess Intel should have started by strengthening their integrated GPU drivers, delivering newer, better architectures there, and eventually when they had good driver and also already had a good architecture built around the iGPUs they just made the work to scale that into dGPUs... That would really turn out way better for them, people would probably be talking about how good the intel iGPUs had become already, and then Intel would drop a scaled up dGPU version of that, public opinion would skyrocket. But really I hope they keep it up now untill it's good and competitive. They sure have the means and the money to do so.
 
Even if Intel had managed to make a 3060/6600XT competitor that equals it for slightly cheaper, they'd still be months late. So the idea of Intel canning their dGPU division because early products were falling behind seemed silly to me. They've only just canned Optane, and that's been around since 2017.
 
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