I thought that this concept was already worked out as Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), but perhaps because TPU has been shipped by Google for couple of years now, Intel came up with thei own naming.

I bet you don't live in Ukraine and don't speak Ukrainian at home...

I will be looking forward to holiday sales of 2023 (next year) to get Dell XPS 17. There is still a bit of life left in my Thinkpad from 2010. Hopefully Dell would not switch to soldering RAM and SSD into the main board in the meantime, as it seems to be a trend with high performance machines.

I was stuck at my previous role, and bought a $2K laptop with 3070 to learn ML&DNN. A year later I have transferred to a team with focus in ML. It would have been practically impossible without the experience I gained installing/troubleshooting/training models on the GPU. In other words - $1.5K GPU card with 24GB could be a good investment.