Posted on Monday, February 18 2019 @ 12:58 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TechPowerUp
writes Intel acquired Ineda, an Indian startup focused on highly energy-efficient, custom-design processors for use in wearables. The site says Intel bought the company to acquire its design team of around 100 engineers, to put them to work on making Intel's future discrete GPUs more energy efficient.
Besides the obvious implications for mobiles devices, energy efficiency is the #1 constraint these days when it comes to graphics performance, since power generates heat, which requires bigger and more expensive heatsinks, and drives up fan noise levels. NVIDIA learned this after GTX 480, and has since made constant improvements in this sector, which is the foundation for their market dominance today.
Ineda Systems founder Dasaradha Gude used to be managing director of AMD India, which suggests some ties with Raja Koduri, who used to be head at AMD's Radeon Graphics department and moved to Intel not long ago, to start up their discrete GPU project. This makes us speculate that Raja, who's also from Hyderabad originally, was instrumental in making this buy-out happen.
