There's the question of conflict of interest. Putting that aside the question is it really a deal that's going to happen. How much will the deal cost? Can Sambanova's hardware be integrated to OneAPI in a timely manner ?
Would they be able to execute GPU based AI roadmap well enough along with it without getting affected ?
Would they be able to execute GPU based AI roadmap well enough along with it without getting affected ?
I wonder what it says about Jaguar Shores, if Intel is shopping for yet another start-up.
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And this would mark another mess of a deal they need to focus on GPGPU not shop for startups.
There was another thread where @adroc_thurston said that Intel should have shipped, whatever they had (good / bad / evil / mediocre).
With iterations + feedback, with use of chiplets that Intel is getting pretty good at, they could have found a combination, niche, use case and a customer.
In 2022/2023, Intel and AMD were seen as being in similar (un)competitive position vs. Nvidia. But since that time, AMD shipped 4 products and Intel cancelled everything.
N+2 was always described to be solving all the shortcoming of N+1, and by cancelling N+1, N+2 will get to market so much faster. Except it never happened.
Some exuberant Intel fans on Twitter say that this will be a game changer with Intel Foundry, filling Intel fabs. So out of curiosity, I asked Grok for a ballpark estimate, to estimate from known SambaNova shipments, how many TSMC wafers per month it needs.
Grok answer was 2 wafers per month.
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Twitter Fans RIP How is this different from Habana/Nervana Intel has always been on the right track but they simply fumble at the most important moment.
Co Packaged Optics Intel had years of R&D before Nvidia and they have working prototype but no one talks about them they are pioneer in Glass Substrate and are ahead of TSMC/Samsung and yet we only heard it was cancelled like how is it not dumb.
AVX-512 they were on the correct path fumbled with ADL.
Optane crazy tech missed opportunity.
I can go on things they keep fumbling.
Grok needs work cause 2 Wafer is totally wrong
Of course, nobody would process 2 Wafers per month, but Grok took the total shipments (certain number racks), how many dies went into them and over what period. Using die calculator of how many good dies per wafer.
The key input into this is how many (or more precisely how few) racks SambaNoa actually sold to customers. They could find info on about 10-15 racks.
Intel closing in on SambaNova for $1.6 billion
Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for $1.6 billion, a steep discount from its $5 billion valuation in 2021.
rollingout.com
1.6Bn $ is too much to waste at this stage if it turns out to be another bad acquisition.
That remains to be seen though Intel definitely has issues to be sorted with their GPU-AI team.
Whether JSH is competitive or not but it should at least solve(if not canceled) rack-scale limitations of Falcon Shores. Ideally they should focus on s/w stack with the help of Battlematrix, Crescent Island, etc. and get it to a decent state before JSH release. Sambanova doesn't have a good reputation regarding software.
They tried with PVC but there weren't many takers, neither much from the likes of Dell, SMCI, etc. It is getting discontinued next month. Inventories were/are shredded, donated to Unis, etc. RTB(Rialto) was incremental/~30%? over PVC, even worse wrt timing. Could have tried to get some deals with Falcon Shores or projected it for inference.
At least Movidius IP gets used in their NPUs. Habana and Nervana were not managed well, more so with Nervana.
Intel’s Purchase Of SambaNova Is A Terrible Idea
Intel’s reported interest in purchasing SambaNova is not new but it is disturbing.
www.semiaccurate.com
Here, report from Wall Street analyst Joe Moore. He thinks Coral Rapids is H2 2027. Which, I very much doubt is correct.
And you are correct it's not lol Q1 27 was launch for Diamond Rapids SP(8CH version) Coral would be early 2028 even after acceleration.
Intel Hires Qualcomm Executive To Lead GPU Engineering For Data Centers
Intel has hired a Qualcomm executive who led the rival’s GPU engineering efforts to aid with the semiconductor giant’s latest attempt at building AI chips for data centers.
www.crn.com
Exclusive: Intel Taps Ex-Arm, HPE Exec For Data Center Systems Post Amid AI Reorg
Intel has hired a former Arm and HPE executive to take on a new leadership role focused on data center systems and solutions as its CEO made another AI-related reorganization, CRN has learned.
www.crn.com
Eric Demers will be responsible for GPU IP and would report to Kevork(btw the same guy who seemingly caused tremors about Intel's future Open Source contributions at ITT 2025).
Someone asked about Clearwater Forest during Intel earnings call, and LBT did seem to even bother answering. Just listed other things that are a priority.
While they mention Coral Rapids time and again they don't make any mention of
DMR-HD(RRF) or their E-core server roadmap.
DMR-HD(RRF) or their E-core server roadmap.
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Relatively low for SRF but the likes of Alibaba, Tencent and Telco had there share apart from other CSPs. CWF could've been better if it wasn't that delayed.
Internal target for them were the likes of Graviton, Ampere besides other markets.
RRF theoretically would be(have been?) lot better and versatile than its predecessors.
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Microscopic volume footprint.
It was optimistically Turin-D perf at hella money.
See, that's the thing, Graviton and friends are not really core spam platforms per se; they focus very much on scale up perf.
Ampere is dead for the same reasons Atom Xeons are dead.
It gets vivisected by the SP7 Venice.
Never had any chances.
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