I can hear the obituary getting prepared by killedbygoogle.com already.

It seems to have been a plan for a long time, given their huge shift to unified memory architectures across most of their hardware.

They’re pretty much the only vendor where you can cost-effectively deploy a foundational LLM locally.

Now we know why they stopped shipping games to PC. They need to prep their user base for a hardware price that will have users consider just buying a PC instead, taking away the “I can play the PlayStation exclusives on PC anyway” argument.