Intel is internet hosting an investor assembly later immediately and CEO Pat promised to ship some information for players on the occasion. Properly, forward of that, Intel has launched data on its Arc lineup of discrete graphics playing cards: they’re coming to desktop in Q2, workstations in Q3, and Intel plans to ship 4 million of them by the top of the 12 months.
It is the Accelerated Computing Techniques and Graphics Group (AXG) that is answerable for the discrete GPUs we’re holding out for, and apparently AXG is on monitor to ship its GPUs this 12 months.
“AXG expects to ship greater than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022,” Intel says in its investor supplies. “OEMs are introducing notebooks with Intel Arc graphics, code-named Alchemist, on the market within the first quarter of 2022. Intel will ship add-in playing cards for desktops within the second quarter and workstations by the third quarter.”
4 million is a major sum of GPUs, and we actually want them. We had been hoping for an honest lot of GPUs out of Intel this 12 months following feedback from Intel’s chief architect Raja Koduri and CEO Pat Gelsinger in response to our open letter asking for help with the GPU shortage. It is wanting like Intel’s not less than aiming to ship on their phrases, and it will be an enormous push for Intel’s maiden discrete GPU push.
I’m with you, @pcgamer. It is a big challenge for PC players and the trade at massive. @IntelGraphics is working laborious to discover a path in direction of the mission – getting tens of millions of Arc GPUs into the palms of PC players yearly https://t.co/bknQOvUMtiJanuary 29, 2022
As for timing, we had now anticipated for the primary chips to come back out in Q1, although we had been conscious prior which may solely be the cellular discrete GPUs first.
It is Q2, then, for our discrete GPUs on desktop, after which adopted up by third-quarter workstation playing cards.
There’s additionally point out of Mission Endgame in Intel’s investor supplies. Not a lot is thought about this different that it is going to be a Arc GPU-powered service for always-accessible, low-latency computing within the cloud.
We requested Intel for extra data on Endgame however sadly the corporate would not have a lot else to share at the moment. Could possibly be attention-grabbing to see the place this one goes, although.
Intel wraps up that Arc information bow with phrase that work has begun on its ultra-enthusiast gaming structure, Celestial. Not a lot is thought about this immediately, as we have solely that line to go on, however ultra-enthusiast needs to be not less than RTX 3090/RX 6900 XT efficiency, proper? If not, larger—by the point it will doubtless come out, Nvidia and AMD will likely be onto their subsequent technology architectures. If not next-next, as digging into Raja’s chat on the investor day chat, it appears to be like like Intel Celestial is a third Gen product focusing on a 2024 launch.
However honest sufficient, Intel, I am enthusiastic about Arc greater than ever. Now inform me extra, yeah?
