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It seems super weird to say that given who they are and how many times they tried, but Intel is my hope right now. Their arc card where very good for a first salvo, they do great stride in drivers and modern tech (XeSS beating FSR on its first try for exemple), and they're really so scared of behing left behind by arm + cuda card that they just might take it seriously this time instead of killing it when it starts working.

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I want to be hopeful, but these corporations will never do anything for the consumer. At their core they think in terms of squeezing the customer as much as they can. As Steve Jobs said, when the sales people run the company don't expect a good product.

A wonderful thing would be a GPU with open source drivers and a standartized API. AMD could do that and it would kill nVidia marketshare in a few years, but they don't do that because they want the server gpu money at a very inflated margin. Maybe Intel will do it but that depends who runs the company. With open source often corporations publish a feture stripped solution and keep the full drivers closed source. Sad reality we live in.

I've got my fingers crossed on them cramming a lot of vRAM in there. They were putting 16gb in the Xeon Phi 7110P when 8GB was acceptable for system RAM in gaming machines. If they dropped a 64GB+ prosumer card, I'd be so happy. Even if it was something like 32GB of super-fast memory and another 64-128 of slightly slower-but-unified memory, I'd be ecstatic. Being able to fine-tune a 175B LLM locally would be incredible.

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