Intel Arc Alchemist PCB Photo Shows Up on Intel Graphics Social media
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Undying
Amazing. Now show us something more than few photos Intel.
cucaulay malkin
ugly
anticupidon
@cucaulay malkin
Prototype/engineering sample.
It's designed as a working model and proof of concept.
The final production will add bling or more polished looks.
Maybe its "ugliness" will make scalpers to steer away from buying it? 😉
itpro
Haters gonna hate. These ugly gpus are gonna flood the market, soon.
cucaulay malkin
yeah
the cryptomarket
Serega_Mih
tsmc has left the chat:D
Ryu5uzaku
So it's gonna come out when Nvidia and AMD are releasing next gen or something?
schmidtbag
Except this is pretty much the one thing Intel is using TSMC to mass-produce.
XenthorX
It shows us everything we need to know
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Venix
It can look even uglier for all i care ! If it performs it will sell. I am not so sure atm miners are to enthusiastic to buy more cards.
Kaarme
I'm not so sure anyone but a miner would pay 900 euros for a 3060 Ti or 1100 euros for a 6700 XT. So, for the time being I believe miners are still buying cards.
Crazy Serb
VRM looks great. This could be cheaper heating replacement for 3090.
Venix
With eth down from 4k + to 2.4~2.6 k and the power bills in a lot of areas the profitability is in an all time low (well since the craze started)almost nobody is willing to buy those cards on those prices this is why they started declining slowly , if the crypto bubble gets a second wave , we are screwed but most likely we are heading a lot lower . So as things are miners still running their rigs on very small profitability in comparison and it is the point where i bet a lot of em thinking to sell the cards in case of mass exodus prices will collapse fast!
Kaarme
So, do you reckon the reason the shelves of PC hardware stores aren't being filled and prices aren't dropping is because AIB partners, more or less in unison, have started to reduce production to avoid a price crash, especially if miners start selling their cards in the near future? Actual retail would find it more difficult to keep up the bloated prices because there would always be a competitor who would lower their prices just enough to sell everything they have got, while the other shops were sitting on their wares, hoping for desperados to keep paying double prices. Currently it's anyone's guess how much the bloated prices are due to the AIB partners, how much the retail stores. I'm sure the AIB partners wanted their fat slice of the pie.
CrazY_Milojko
Just release the damn thing Intel, we're tired of looking at those pics!
NewTRUMP Order
I'm not so sure. I thought that when China banned mining prices would tumble with a glut of mining cards. Gpu prices continued/and continue to be at nauseating levels. You have to remember most miners have already made back their initial investment and have a war chest of profit to buy more gpu's. By the time Intel releases their low end card, the Nvidia 4000 series will be out along with AMD's RDNA 3 cards. Crypto will probably have rebounded by then. Knowing human nature and greed, the miners will have plenty of money to cause the raping of prices this time out, not easing of prices. I hope I am wrong. https://media2.giphy.com/media/3bcjh6AoLHVAG7QgEi/200w.gif?cid=ecf05e477jr6okz41krv088i559gz6dtljwi07gxxptuaqkd&rid=200w.gif&ct=g
Celcius
So, does Intel plan on selling these themselves, or do they have AIB partner agreements?
If it's the latter, I can see the next supply-chain problem; Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and others claiming that, with their existing Nvidia and AMD commitments, there is little-to-no capacity to handle additional manufacturing. That doesn't really need to be true, just widely believed. "Prices must remain high."
TheDeeGee
Flood underground mining farms you means?
Venix
@Kaarme & @NewTRUMP Order i am only speculating and judging by the past 2 bubbles on 2014 and 2018 ... especially on 2014 amd got huge losses on the aftermath since the used market got flooded with cheap used cards and there was a lot of stock left in stores unsold , in 2018 also the market got flooded with cheap second hard cards ....but if say tomorrow eth drop to 1500 .... they will panic sell their mining rigs and there will be a flood of 2nd hand gpus . Stopping production now might indicate they prepare so they do not have enough cards left over on the shelfs .... i might be completely off i am just expecting somewhat a repeat of history for the 3rd time .
While my only speculation is based on the past history ... i might be completly off ... but i am optimistic i might be right ! we will see !
