Comment by legitronics
1 day ago
Intel ai gpu division is so aggressively anti “small” consumer. I think it has something to do with low volume and a small sales/distribution network. The data center cards I have from amd and nvidia are grey market at best. I don’t think intel moved enough units to establish alternate channels.
How so? You can walk into Micro Center and buy a B70 right now. Intel is the only one to offer license-free SR-IOV too.
Thats not an AI GPU its a consumer product.
It's a workstation card targeted specifically at inference. It's also their only late gen "AI GPU" arch available, baring the release of the D270 this thread is about.
Serious question, would they bother?
You can work with 10 players that will buy all of them with minimal effort.
What I don't understand is: when you only plan for your product to have 10 customers, why even make a marketing page like this for it? At that point it's essentially the hardware equivalent of consultingware, something you sell to your existing contacts through outbound calls and by shoving ads through the B2B equivalent of a post-consumer sales channel (i.e. proactive outreach by your org's internal champion for that customer, to said customer.)
Because they want the hype to make the stock go up.
In fairness, they spent 5 cents generating it with Claude.