More interesting Intel news for you today! Not only are they teaming up with AMD for graphics tech in a new CPU, they've also hired the former-AMD Radeon Chief, Raja Koduri. They've also said they're expanding into the high-end discrete graphics solutions market.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 8, 2017 – Intel today announced the appointment of Raja Koduri as Intel chief architect, senior vice president of the newly formed Core and Visual Computing Group, and general manager of a new initiative to drive edge computing solutions. In this position, Koduri will expand Intel’s leading position in integrated graphics for the PC market with high-end discrete graphics solutions for a broad range of computing segments.
We are going through a very interesting time right now, I'm pretty keen to see what Intel do with this discrete graphics solution. It does depend on what exact market they're going for, but we could end up seeing an Intel GPU sitting on the shelves along side NVIDIA and AMD. That's certainly how it reads to me and it wouldn't be surprising given Intel's shift with grabbing AMD tech for new CPUs.
Considering Intel have been pretty good with their open source graphics drivers, it's not a leap to imagine their discrete GPU solution would also use Mesa (one would hope, anyway).
See the announcement from Intel here.
What do you think to this? Exciting?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: dvdpsp ??Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääMaybe an all new type of era is dawning upon us and proprietary drivers are going away... Freedom seems to be the direction on all sectors now. Which is amazing and interesting! Even natural?
With a PSP sitting in on every new x86 processor, i think there is even less freedom now. It is the ultimate blob.
With the old blobs you were at least able to not to include them in your system if you were ok with performance loss. With the PSP, you can't even boot/run without it.
Philadelphus Nov 9, 2017
TheRiddick Nov 9, 2017
More competition in the GPU market would be a great thing really, if Intel goes that route.
Quoting: elmapulpsp ??
Platform Security Processor, the big firmware blob that is the OS beneath the OS.
Quoting: marcusQuoting: elmapulpsp ??
Platform Security Processor, the big firmware blob that is the OS beneath the OS.
Or IME for Intel users.
Here's a trip down the hell lane for the curious: https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/for-deep-security-use-arm-avoid-intel-amd-processors/
Quoting: throghPlease not another proprietary package with protected firmware-blobs. Make it really free like the older integrated chipsets! Everything else is really more of the same paradigm and not needed at all from my point of view - not looking after people trying to make just unixoid copy of "Windows" out of their installed distribution.
Sorry, I was a bit off topic. The PSP is an ARM processor built into the new AMD processors, that has total control of your hardware. That said, while it's nice that AMD works on their opened quality drivers, their firmware was/is still a binary blob, which is required to take full advantage of your cpu or gpu. But at least you had a choice with it.
Again, I think i was a bit off topic, but i don't think the software/hardware industry and the laws surrounding it move in the direction of freedom.
Patreon
PayPal
See more from me