I should also mention: In terms of financial sense, one lesson learned in the engineering industry is that _giving away expensive things_, even at high cost, to

I should also mention: In terms of financial sense, one lesson learned in the engineering industry is that _giving away expensive things_, even at high cost, to engineers makes financial sense. If an engineer puts what you gave away in a product, you might sell a million more units. If Intel could give away a Battlemage to every PyTorch developer, every game developers, and every deep learning developer, even tossing in a check for free cash, in return for it becoming their primary video card, the ROI would be astronomical. If Intel gave _me_ a Battlemage, and I actually used it (I wouldn't; I have an NVidia), the expected ROI would likely be >$1M. For myself alone. The key gap between AMD's $170B market cap and NVidia's $2.92T market cap is software and ecosystem. Making a card specifically for developers makes a ton of sense, since what those developers develop will then have many, many orders of magnitude more __users__.