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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by kristianp on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:27PM (#42312862)
The size of the local inference market is too small. Maybe a couple of thousand LLM enthusiasts? It's not enough to make a profit or even breakeven on the development costs for the hardware.
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by dogcomplex on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:31PM (#42313973)
For now. This might very well change once the general public realizes they can be movie directors (or generative world gamers) just by downloading some model and plugging in an eGPU. The potential inference market is huge
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