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I dunno everyone, but I think Intel has something big on their hands with their announced workstation gpus. The b50 is a low profile card that doesn’t have a powersupply hookup because it only uses something like 60 watts, and comes with 16gb vram at a msrp of 300 dollars.

I imagine companies will have first dibs via the likes of agreements with suppliers like CDW, etc, but if Intel had enough of these battlemage dies accumulated, it could also drastically change the local ai enthusiast/hobbyist landscape; for starters this could drive down the price of workstation cards that are ideal for inference, at the very least. I’m cautiously excited.

On the AMD front (really, a sort of open compute front), Vulkan Kompute is picking up steam and it would be really cool to have a standard that mostly(?) ships with Linux, and older ports available for Freebsd, so that we can actually run free as in freedom inference locally.