<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Arc is insanely good for a first attempt at a discrete GPU. It has mid tier performance for mid tier price, and drivers are still getting tons of work from intel that makes them better and better almost every release. It&amp;#x27;s actually crazy that they managed to do so well (mid-tier is still amazingly powerful, all things considered). If they stick with it, there&amp;#x27;s no reason to believe they won&amp;#x27;t be able to compete at the high end, too. I honestly expected a massive trash fire when I first heard of Arc, just because of the countless edge cases and driver&amp;#x2F;API hell that even Nvidia and AMD seem to run into continuously.</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbozeman</author><text>Turns out the leadership of Intel is stupider than I thought.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost impossible to believe that they actually thought they&amp;#x27;d be able to go up against two GPU makers each with 25+ years of experience.&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; going to be a long uphill battle. Always. I figured it would take at least 10 years for Intel to become competitive, but turns out they tucked tail and ran.&lt;p&gt;Mediocre!</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>In other intel news, Raja is no longer with them. Seems like he was forced out and some of the rumours about the bleak future of their consumer GPU business may turn out to be true</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gfv</author><text>Intel has been making GPUs since roughly 2002, 845 chipset series. (There were earlier ones, but I&amp;#x27;m</text><parent_chain><item><author>cbozeman</author><text>Turns out the leadership of Intel is stupider than I thought.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s almost impossible to believe that they actually thought they&amp;#x27;d be able to go up against two GPU makers each with 25+ years of experience.&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; going to be a long uphill battle. Always. I figured it would take at least 10 years for Intel to become competitive, but turns out they tucked tail and ran.&lt;p&gt;Mediocre!</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>In other intel news, Raja is no longer with them. Seems like he was forced out and some of the rumours about the bleak future of their consumer GPU business may turn out to be true</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled</url></story>