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While it may be simpler, it may also be inaccurate. The fact that Intel's dominance isn't as pervasive as before does not mean it's no longer #1. AMD has a long way to go.

One a related note, to my knowledge AMD is still essentially absent from the Autonomous Driving market, with NVIDIA and Intel fighting to be top dogs through different approaches¹. With some estimates for the size of that market (including non-chip portions) going as high as trillions of dollars², I hope for AMD's sake it has a plan to catch up sooner rather than later.

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1. https://www.benzinga.com/top-stories/18/02/11148965/which-ch...

2. http://fortune.com/2017/06/03/autonomous-vehicles-market/

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They're too busy playing catch up with deep learning rocm library.

I wish they're aren't so behind in everything I care about and give us some competition so those graphic card goes down in prices already.

Jim Keller left AMD to go work for Tesla.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/20/tesla-building-an-ai-chip-fo...

And he recently left Telsa to be SVP in charge of the Silicon Engineering Group at Intel: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12689/cpu-design-guru-jim-kel...

When Manchester United will hire him?

What Autonomous Driving market? From what I have heard, right now autonomous driving even by leaders like Waymo is incredibly small-potatoes and the rigs running in these cars are mostly prototypes built with commodity hardware.

It's just way too early to start picking winners and losers in the hardware space for autonomous given that nothing is being mass-produced. And there is no price-competition in the space because the major players are willing to pay whatever it takes as part of their R&D efforts to win the race.

This autonomous market:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-tech-intel-mobiley...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-driving-cars/drive-platfor...

All the big automakers in Germany are looking for hardware manufacturers that will deliver them autonomous driving hardware. Their typical lead time is >3 years and they definitely plan to have such hardware in mass produced cars 2-3 years from now.

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