Consumer GPUs gave them foot in the door for AI developers and research. It would be super stupid to do that. But next couple quarterly reports will gain a point or two though. Totally worth it to saw off your legs.
Say you have the tooling to make X number of processors to split between Product A and Product B. Yeah, A got you started, but now it’s 10% (or less!) of your total profit. It’s a no-brainer to put that manufacturing soley into B.
Combine that with the fact that PC builders are an ever shrinking market. Hell, even having a PC is becoming rare. I’ve never bought a factory PC in my life, but I’m on a NUC I got from my last company and may just ride with those for the foreseeable future. Nothing to do with RAM prices! I simply don’t have a need for a monster, power sucking unit when a 4" x 2" box does it all.
Consumer GPUs gave them foot in the door for AI developers and research. It would be super stupid to do that. But next couple quarterly reports will gain a point or two though. Totally worth it to saw off your legs.
Say you have the tooling to make X number of processors to split between Product A and Product B. Yeah, A got you started, but now it’s 10% (or less!) of your total profit. It’s a no-brainer to put that manufacturing soley into B.
Combine that with the fact that PC builders are an ever shrinking market. Hell, even having a PC is becoming rare. I’ve never bought a factory PC in my life, but I’m on a NUC I got from my last company and may just ride with those for the foreseeable future. Nothing to do with RAM prices! I simply don’t have a need for a monster, power sucking unit when a 4" x 2" box does it all.