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Are dedicated gaming GPUs doomed?

R&D ROI shifting to data center and AI.

Jon Peddie

The GPU market has seen significant changes in the last two decades. GPUs were initially used for gaming and then for compute acceleration in universities and then industry. Later, their parallel processors were mapped perfectly into AI training scenarios. Tensor processors were added to GPUs, increasing their silicon burden cost. The Covid pandemic and delusional forecasts led to a ramp-up in production, resulting in huge inventory overhangs when the demand for gaming GPUs crashed. As a result, data center AIB shipments have surpassed gaming in terms of revenue, and data centers will out-prioritize gaming if they are paying the bills.
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