[alephnerd]

Intel was chosen because the DoE wanted to foster an entire ecosystem of GPU vendors, because having a single vendor is a MASSIVE bottleneck.

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia were all vendors on Exascale projects [0]

> Intel is dog shit

Intel has issues with execution, but their engineers are still top notch. They are the last American company to actually do semiconductor fabrication, and only fell behind TSMC and Samsung in fabrication only 6-7 years ago because they didn't choose to invest in EUV lithography instead of other methods.

[0] - http://helper.ipam.ucla.edu/publications/nmetut/nmetut_19423...

[CaliforniaKarl]

Case in point, Intel’s discrete consumer GPUs: They’re making major gains with each driver release, and I hope to see them seriously competing with nvidia in the gaming market.