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With this much ram don’t expect anything remotely affordable by civilians.

Uncle Sam owns a good chunk of Intel now. "Not affordable by civilians" might be precisely the target market: the DoD/national intelligence agencies have money to burn, can fund things long enough to stabilize Intel a little, and in exchange they get first dibs on everything.

Intel for intel on your Intels, perhaps.

160 GB LPDDR5 is ~$1,200 retail so the card could be sold for $2,000. The price will depend on how desperate Intel is. Intel probably can't copy Nvidia's pricing.

It’d be a disaster for Intel if it sold for less than 3k, personally I think they’re aiming for break even at 5k a pop at least, and I wouldn’t be surprised to advertise 2x memory at half nvidia price, which would put it at ~15-20k? and a healthy margin which they need like oxygen now. Of course it’s all for naught if it doesn’t perform compute-wise.

I also think they have to be substantially cheaper than nvidia to have any chance, but the pro 6000 with 96G is already available at 7-8k - so half the price would have to be significantly below 4k.

Huh didn’t know that, nice. Intel’s still in trouble then :) IMHO they’ll try to sell the increased ram as worth the ‘premium’ (or, worth the ‘reduced not-nvidia penalty’)

I agree with you, based on standard business logic, but the question is whether Intel would be willing to sell a generation at break-even to disrupt, achieve a larger (and somewhat 'sticky') install base, developer engagement, a larger mind-share, etc.?

4x 5090s gets you way faster inference than I suspect this will, or the 6000 pro if you needed datacentre format at expense of raw speed. Given either of those setups is ~8k this will have to come in for less than that.

but it's easier to fit 8x Crescent Island than 40x 5090 into a single chassis

> 160 GB LPDDR5 is ~$1,200 retail so the card could be sold for $2,000.

Prices are set by what the market will bear, not the lowest possible price where they could break even on the BOM and manufacturing costs.

The high cost of the LPDDR5X should be a clue that this is going to be in the $10K range, not the $2K range.

I mean, even without that, the phrase “enterprise GPU”, does not tend to convey “priced for typical consumers”.

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