Good Luck Getting a Cheap GPU. AMD Is a 'Data Center First Company,' CEO Says(www.pcmag.com)
14 pointsby yakkomajuri3 hours ago4 comments
  • gonzalohm40 minutes ago
    I really don't understand the strategy of these companies. I don't care much about AI, but at some point, the current AI models will be able to run in old hardware. Hopefully that would leave room for other manufacturers to get into the market. I understand that right now it's really hard to compete because it requires top notch manufacturing processes. But that's not going to be the case forever.

    By being hostile to personal consumers, they may make more profit now, but what's the long term plan?

    I still run my 2060GTX and it's fine

    • spottedmarley7 minutes ago
      My local models are already quite good enough for 98% of what I would use an LLM for day to day. I feel like I already don't necessarily need a frontier model unless its for raw speed. This is still early days and, if I'm already feeling this way, in just a few years frontier AI will just be another big conglomerate that I avoid like the rest of them.
  • DivingForGoldan hour ago
    Hoping politicians investigate these "barons" for price fixing and collusion ...
  • V__34 minutes ago
    I am going to lose it when the market finally crashes and somehow Intel will take the GPU consumer market.
  • throwaway815232 hours ago
    Wasn't it about gamers not all that long ago? Is it kthxbai to gamers now?
    • chung812336 minutes ago
      Gamers are not buying GPUs because there is no memory to build a system.
      • kimixa32 minutes ago
        Also they're all tsmc limited - if they can sell the same wafer as data centre chips for whole multiples compared to the same wafer of consumer graphics chips, can you blame them? Just so long as you keep the consumer business alive enough to ramp it back up when the gold.rush ends.

        And being public companies not chasing that would probably start shareholder revolts and court cases.