Computer historian Roy Mize asks “what ever happened to Intel’s supercomputers.” Dave says Intel always had a research activity, headed by Justin Rattner (now Intel CTO). That group developed a hyper-cube supercomputer – composed of multiple microprocessors- that was sold to the government. Intel is now out of that business. Dave was still at Intel when they shipped their last super computer (1995-96?). He said he didn’t see the money in a new generation for that business. He reiterated that companies should not fall in love with their strategies, or else they will fail. [This year, Intel has indicated it would make chips for super-computers in data centers, but not build those machines.
[Description by Alan Weissberger]
The above video was captured at the IEEE-CNSV October 1st panel, Intel’s Transition to Success: From Memory to the Microprocessor. For the full description, click here.