We have a whole subheader on how AI is supposedly going to kill dGPUs, but the paragraph explains nearly nothing as to why. It doesn't even begin to contemplate

We have a whole subheader on how AI is supposedly going to kill dGPUs, but the paragraph explains nearly nothing as to why. It doesn't even begin to contemplate the idea that if AI does continue to grow in ubiquity, there's even more demand for compute that handles that sort of workload efficiently, and we know GPUs serve that purpose better than CPUs in the vast majority of cases. It even mentions that AI is being used for graphics purposes in gaming. It ignores all of this to suppose that the distant second in dGPU sales not releasing an already niche card on some arbitrary schedule is indicative of the market as the whole. It mentions sound cards, but a lot of what killed sound cards is that the only people buying them after integrated audio being a thing were audio enthusiasts, and audio enthusiasts have moved nearly universally to external DACs via USB. They're just as specific of a product, serve the same purpose, and exist across the whole price range that sound cards did and far beyond, for people that want to light enough money on fire. I'd wager the DAC market is far larger today than the soundcard market was even before integrated audio became a thing. Things way have changed so it's no longer something you're slotting in as an expansion card, but it's still an additional purchase for a premium purpose. I don't see dGPUs going anywhere for the exact same reason, barring physics-defying technological advances.