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>Intel correctly identified AI as the future

I'd say this is true - they just failed to execute meaningfully on it. They were adding stuff like VNNI back in 2018, buying Nervana and Habana, but then just...didn't do much with it. At the same time, they made Ponte Vecchio.

Software support for all of these is not great, in my personal opinion.

For the Ponte Vecchio and Xe GPUs, pytorch 2.5 allegedly supports it now: https://pytorch.org/blog/intel-gpu-support-pytorch-2-5/

For habana, I think they have a custom interface that hooks into Pytorch: https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/PyTorch/Reference/Python_Pa...

There's a random Intel 1100 Max with 48gb HBM on eBay, if anyone is inclined to try it...https://www.ebay.com/itm/387631533950