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Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt it would cost them a ton either, and it would be a great marketing tactic. In fact, they could pair it w/ a release of their own LLM that's tuned to run on those cards. It wouldn't get their foot in the commercial AI space, but it could get your average gamer interested in playing with it.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It wouldn't cost much, but this way they can release a "pro" card with double the vram for 5x the price.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I doubt they will. Intel has proven to be incompetent at taking advantage of opportunities. They missed:

mobile revolution - waited to see if the iPhone would pan out
GPU - completely missed the crypto mining boom and COVID supply crunch
AI - nothing on the market

They need a compelling GPU since the market is moving away from CPUs as the high margin product in a PC and the datacenter. If they produced an AI compatible chip at reasonable prices, they could get real world testing before hey launch something for datacenters. But no, it seems like they're content missing this boat too, even when the price of admission is only a higher memory SKU...