Intel is really struggling right now, but I still have hope. We need some more competition in the consumer GPU market.
A 32GB Arc card would be a huge upset in the budget/beginner AI space.
It -could- be. A770s are about 300 bucks right now.
Even if they charged 600-700$ for a 32GB variant that would be an upset.
Then lots of folks would probably work to improve the software tooling story for the cards...
And then Intel has a better foot in the door for 'bigger' hardware in the space.
Alas it was basically unobtainable. Very few available in retail. And folks are charging multiple thousands for the couple rare instances that made it out.
Meanwhile we haven't seen AMD think twice about the virtualization market, something it has been serving ok with its MxGPU lineup.