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WarmWash
Wake me when they wake up and release a middling card with 128GB memory.
nickthegreek
Both have 32gb vram. Could be a pretty compelling choice.
vessenes
Not sure why you'd want this over an apple setup. M4 max is 545GB/s of memory bandwidth - $2k for an entire Mac Studio with 48GB of RAM vs 32 for the B70.
whalesalad
Anyone running an ARC card for desktop Linux who can comment on the experience? I've had smooth sailing with AMD GPU's but have never tried Intel.
DiabloD3
Since they fired the entire Arc team and a lot of the senior engineers already updated their Linkedins to reflect their new positions at AMD, Nvidia, and others, as well as laying off most of their Linux driver team (GPU and non-GPU), uh...

WTF?

pjmlp
New cards in 2026, and targeting Vulkan 1.3?!
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tbyehl
Where's the A310 / A40 successor? Gimme some SR-IOV in a slot-powered, single-width, low-profile card.
SkyeCA
32GB of vram for a decent price? I wonder if these will work well for VR, because vram is my current main issue.
jmward01
I think this shows a shift in model architecture. MOE and similar need more memory for the compute available than just one big model with a lot of layers and weights. I think this is likely a trend that will accelerate. You build the trade-off in which encourages even more experts which means more of a tradeoff, so more experts.....
SmellTheGlove
Any idea if it'll be possible to mix these with nvidia cards? Adding 32GB to a single 3090 setup would be pretty nice.
kadoban
The last go around they looked good on paper and then Intel just didn't make any of them to sell.

Announce all you want, if you don't ever ship anything I could buy, who gives a shit.

cmxch
Good to see that Intel learned to release product to more than just resellers.

Now can we have a 64gb B70 that’s worldwide available and not marked to unicorns like the Maxsun B60 Dual model has been?

lostmsu
Nothing like Crossfire/SLI? Not possible to efficiently connect multiple cards for one large model?
thefounder
Why don’t they make an GPU optimised for inference/batch jobs with 1 TB of ram ? Everyone wants to run the biggest models locally.
mmwelt
At the end of the 2nd paragraph:

> Intel will provide certified drivers for Windows 11, Windows 10, and Linux.

Windows 11, OK. Linux, OK. But why Windows 10 for a new product?!