Intel and Nvidia are teaming up in an unlikely partnership, which will see new products released in both the consumer and AI enterprise sector. As of late, Intel has been struggling, but with the announcement of a collaborative effort between it and Nvidia, the latter will be making a massive $5 billion investment into the company, making Nvidia one of Intel's largest shareholders. This will benefit Nvidia as part of the agreement will see Intel building them custom CPUs for their AI infrastructure, while Intel will be allowed to release x86 SoCs that are integrated with Nvidia RTX GPUs.

For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SOCs will power a wide range of PCs that demand integration of world-class CPUs and GPUs.

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[NinStar]

Fuck this and everyone involved in it.

There is very little competition in the x86-64 space, and this will only make things worse in the long term.

 

[Xzi]

Fuck this and everyone involved in it.

There is very little competition in the x86-64 space, and this will only make things worse in the long term.

Probably. Intel is the "discount" CPU brand right now because of their recent issues, and Nvidia's involvement will probably bring their insane pricing with it, if nothing else. They might make these SoCs much more locked down than other PC hardware as well, Apple style.

 

[Greninji88]

Maybe the raspberry pi 6 would feature NVIDIA/Intel SoC...

 

[ertaboy356b]

Intel SOC is about to get competitive with Ryzen. We will see if the handheld market picks up.

 

[regnad]

Just a matter of time before society collapses into a single giant corporate singularity.

 

[phalk]

Very funny that the US governement and now Nvidia are trying to throw money at Intel, the CPU company that literally had an entire generation of CPUs that were literally defective with how badly they were with the thermals and oxidized themselves to death with the only thing of value right now being thier fab, compared to AMD, the other one that actually made several strides in thier own CPUs within the few years alone and also has thier headquarters and was founded in the US.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. In 25 years of using computers, I’ve never had an Intel CPU die on me.


You can criticize Intel all you want—like how they completely missed the AI wave, which basically got them into financial trouble—but saying their CPUs are “bad” is a huge exaggeration. AMD, on the other hand, has spent most of its life with a reputation that’s half good CPU, half oven—it’s kind of funny, really.

 

[subcon959]

I have no idea what you’re talking about. In 25 years of using computers, I’ve never had an Intel CPU die on me.


You can criticize Intel all you want—like how they completely missed the AI wave, which basically got them into financial trouble—but saying their CPUs are “bad” is a huge exaggeration. AMD, on the other hand, has spent most of its life with a reputation that’s half good CPU, half oven—it’s kind of funny, really.

You seem to be a few years behind in tech terms. Intel self destructed during the 14th gen and AMD 3D cache CPUs have been crushing them in gaming performance for quite a while now.

Currently, Nvidia are plagued by all kinds of driver issues and everyone knows about the melting connector scandal, whereas AMD has made a decent showing with the 9070XT but more importantly are rumoured to be about to finally challenge at the high end next. All while maintaining rock solid drivers.

And BTW, I've been an Intel user since the 486 days and only moved to AMD this year. The previous AMD CPU I had was when the Athlon released. I think their memory controllers are rubbish compared to Intel so I'm no fanboy.

 

[Vixi]

Pretty sure they're referring to Meteor lake (13/14th "gen"). If you can be certain to have a patched up BIOS and get a brand new CPU, you should be fine with those. Granted they are already known for running hot.

But I wouldn't trust a secondhand meteor lake chip for anything. Not even at a steep discount.

Raptor Lake.
Meteor Lake was a mobile exclusive chip.

They've apparently confirmed this won't affect their own GPU development.

This is supposedly only for SoCs, so expect so see this in laptops.

 

[Retrojunkies]

All this talk of AI..... so does this mean SkyNet will have RayTracing functionality....

 

[Viri]

I hate duopolies. Android/iOS, Intel/AMD, nVIDIA/AMD, Nintendo/Sony (let's be real, Xbox is dead), etc etc etc...

That's why I was butt hurt when T-Mobile bought MetroPCS and Sprint. Now the US is stuck with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

 

[NeoReibert]

It’s not like Intel is unknown for Collaborations.

Intel and AMD created SoC‘s together in the past. One such device, that used the Intel CPU+AMD GPU combination on the same chip, was the Intel NUC Hades Canyon. Which I own and really love. They created 2 SKUs for it. There were 2-3 laptops too, that used this really interesting thing.

The news outlets back then even reported it in this funny way like „Hell is frozen“.

The only thing that sucks at this moment using this device is the horrible driver situation. Because Intel nuked their own NUC business and gave it to Asus as well as the fact that this collab was a 1 time thing, it became really hard getting the newest working drivers when you do a fresh Windows Install as nobody feels responsible