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Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM

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Re: Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM

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Post by jsnell »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #3

Any business people here that can explain why companies announce products a year before their release? I can understand getting consumers excited but it also tells competitors what you are doing giving them time to make changes of their own. What's the advantage here?

In this case there is no risk of anyone stealing Intel's ideas or even reacting to them.

First, they're not even an also-ran in the AI compute space. Nobody is looking to them for roadmap ideas. Intel does not have any credibility, and no customer is going to be going to Nvidia and demanding that they match Intel.

Second, what exactly would the competitors react to? The only concrete technical detail is that the cards will hopefully launch in 2027 and have 160GB of memory.

The cost of doing this is really low, and the value of potentially getting into the pipeline of people looking to buy data center GPUs in 2027 soon enough to matter is high.

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Post by Mars008 »

creaturemachine wrote: post #6
knowitnone3 wrote: post #3

Any business people here that can explain why companies announce products a year before their release? I can understand getting consumers excited but it also tells competitors what you are doing giving them time to make changes of their own. What's the advantage here?

The AI bubble might not last another year. Better get a few more pumps in before it blows.

AI is not going anywhere. Now everyone wants to get a piece. Local inference is expected to grow. Documents, image, video, etc processing. Another obvious is driverless farm vehicles and other automated equipment. "Assisted" books, images, news,.. already and grows fast. Translation also a fact.

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Post by reactordev »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #3

Any business people here that can explain why companies announce products a year before their release? I can understand getting consumers excited but it also tells competitors what you are doing giving them time to make changes of their own. What's the advantage here?

This is a shareholder “me too” product

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Post by epolanski »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #3

Any business people here that can explain why companies announce products a year before their release? I can understand getting consumers excited but it also tells competitors what you are doing giving them time to make changes of their own. What's the advantage here?

I don't think you're giving much advantage to anybody really on such a small timeframe.

Semiconductors are like container ships, they are extremely slow and hard to steer, you plan today the products you'll release in 2030.

Re: Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM

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Post by schmorptron »

mft_ wrote: post #16

I have no idea of the likely price, but (IMO) this is the sort of disruption that Intel needs to aim at if it's going to make some sort of dent in this market. If they could release this for around the price of a 5090, it would be very interesting.

Maybe not that low, but given it's using LPDDR5 instead of GDDR7, at least the ram should be a lot cheaper.

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Post by Neywiny »

schmorptron wrote: post #18
mft_ wrote: post #16

I have no idea of the likely price, but (IMO) this is the sort of disruption that Intel needs to aim at if it's going to make some sort of dent in this market. If they could release this for around the price of a 5090, it would be very interesting.

Maybe not that low, but given it's using LPDDR5 instead of GDDR7, at least the ram should be a lot cheaper.

Certainly an interesting choice. Dramatically worse performance but dramatically larger only time will tell how it actually goes
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