[loudmax]

I tend to agree that it would be niche. The machine learning enthusiast market is far smaller than the gamer market.

But selling to machine learning enthusiasts is not a bad place to be. A lot of these enthusiasts are going to go on to work at places that are deploying enterprise AI at scale. Right now, almost all of their experience is CUDA and they're likely to recommend hardware they're familiar with. By making consumer Intel GPUs attractive to ML enthusiasts, Intel would make their enterprise GPUs much more interesting for enterprise.

[mysteria]

The problem is that this now becomes a long term investment, which doesn't work out when we have CEOs chasing quarterly profits and all that. Meanwhile Nvidia stuck with CUDA all those years back (while ensuring that it worked well on both the consumer and enterprise line) and now they reap the rewards.

[Wytwwww]

Current Intel and its leadership seems to be much more focused on long term goals/growth than before, or so they claim.

[resource_waste]

I need offline LLMs for work.

It doesnt need to be consumer grade, it doesnt need to be ultra high either.

It needs to be cheap enough for my department to expensive it via petty cash.

[antupis]

It would be same playbook that NVIDIA did CUDA where was market 2010 when it was research labs and hobbyists doing vector calculations.