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I suspect that Intel could hit a $2000 price point for a 128GB ARC card, but even at $3000, it would certainly be cheaper than buying 8 A770 LE ARC cards and connecting them to a machine. There are likely tens of thousands of people buying multiple GPUs to run local inferencing on Reddit’s local llama, and that is a subset of the market.

In Q1 2023, Intel sold 250,000 ARC cards. Sales then collapsed the next quarter. I would expect sales to easily exceed that and be maintained. The demand for high memory GPUs is far higher than many realize. You have professional inferencing operations such as the ones listed at openrouter.ai that would gobble up 128GB VRAM ARC cards for running smaller high context models, much like how you have businesses gobbling up the Raspberry Pi for low end tasks, without even considering the local inference community.