Giant Intel gears up for dGPU battle

Former PR manager at AMD and now head of engineering at Intel, the invincible Chris Hook called together his team of 500 engineers in Folsom, CA, who are building Intel’s dGPU and asked them what was being done right and what needed improvement. They told him, and he says (representing management), “we’re listening.” Hook’s real job, however, is Discrete Graphics and Visual Technologies Marketing at Intel Corporation. In addition to the in-situ group, thousands more who joined Hook online from Intel graphics engineering centers around the world. THOUSANDS—are you listening AMD and Nvidia? Someone took a picture of the event