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by LatencyKills 21 days ago
First:

> "Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows," said Satya Nadella, chairman and head of Microsoft.

Then:

> However, Ian Fogg, Research Director at industry analyst firm FDM CCS Insight said the change was "likely to come with a significant price tag" and Nvidia would be targeting "those looking for workstation-class performance".

So... not every desk with Windows.

3 comments

First, make it possible. Then, expand the market. The early adopters help pay R&D for later efforts. Every desk is a good goal, even if not hit by the first doodad.

It just feels too much like what they said about Apple II and early Windows. A play at nostalgia instead putting real thought into it.

I was an engineer at both MS and Apple, and wholeheartedly agree with you.

My question is, what happens to the people who use RTX cards for gaming? This new solution isn't meant for that. Do they need an "AI accelerator" and a gaming-centric GPU?

I don’t know anyone other than a very small but vocal minority who will give a shit about this.

Even in the analytics side most of the stuff is some shonky ass numpy or excel gank.

I don’t know what the market is. I just can’t see it.

The constant deliberate conflagration of LLMs with general intelligence is so grating.