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I think HN user pinewurst nailed it back in 2016: "[Intel] are basically a PR firm with a good fab in the basement".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11820078

Their handling of recent events has really cemented this view in my mind.

Paraphrasing Linus, "talk is cheap, show me the silicon"

While it's fair to criticize them, sometimes it comes across as "those hardware bozos don't know what they're doing" and hardware design, at the speeds and features Intel does is hard (just look at the number of competitors)

I think that was a typo, though, and he meant to refer to IBM.

You have to remember that IBM's PR is stuff like "Watson is sitting here curing cancer right now while his best friend Deep Blue beats people at chess!!11!" Intel doesn't do any of that.

No, it really was in reference to Intel (the thread was about Intel obtaining and developing a dinosaur-era distributed file system called Lustre).

Lustre may be old, but it's hardly useless. Some of its capabilities cannot be replaced by any modern storage systems object and file alike.

CEPH comes close, but cannot completely replace it.

When you connect a thousand nodes to a single storage pool with high throughput and low latency requirements, not everything can cut it.

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