Targeting hundreds of millions of client PCs.
Intel and Nvidia have been working on the jointly developed processors for client and data center products for about a year now as both companies see huge opportunities behind their Intel x86 RTX SoCs and custom Nvidia x86 data center processors. Although the Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a press call that the Trump administration was pleased with the collaboration between two leading U.S. companies, it had nothing to do with it. […]
(this is a few days old)
“Trump is not involved, trust us. Please buy our products.”
Proud of you.
Very interesting.
I’m just not sure I believe Intel’s claim that Arc will continue: this is basically Arc’s biggest market they’re eating.
…And Intel is kinda toast if they let Arc wither away. “Placeholder graphics” aren’t gonna cut it for CPUs anymore.
It does sound like this initiative started before Trump.
It says they’ve only been working on this for a year, so that’s definitely not the case.
A year ago would be October 2024, so this was launched before the election in the US.
And trump’s been politically influential since 2016 at the very latest. There is no reason they wouldn’t be working with both/either candidate to try to ensure they get support from government in whatever way they want.
Just when AMD was finally ascendant. CPU/ GPU/ Memory all on package. Customers are going to get squeezed.
