alt Hacker NewsVery few consumers are going to spend multiple thousands of dollars to save $10 per month. Companies absolutely will to save hundreds per month per employee, but that's not consumer hardware.
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HDBaseT • yesterday at 10:49 PM
Many gamers already spend $1000+ on a GPU.
If you can integrate AI accelerators into consumer cards (you can), you can have local AI for "reasonably" cheap. This is Nvidia's long term goal if you listen to what Jensen has to say.
The limitation is entirely on memory right now. Just a few years ago we could of been strapping 80-100GB to cards for under $200 (BoM).
Well if the trend that the comment further up in this thread claimed continues and compute requirements keep dropping exponentially then perhaps in a few years you can have today’s frontier performance on the normal laptop you already have on your desk anyway.