Again in February, Intel held its on-line investor briefing to put out future plans for the enterprise. Intel talked loads about the way forward for CPUs and GPUs, and briefly talked about one thing referred to as Challenge Endgame. On the time, I speculated it was something a lot like Nvidia’s GeForce now, and because of the upcoming Arc GPU launch, we now have just a little extra readability.
Intel’s Lisa Pearce wrote a blog post answering some urgent questions coming as much as the launch, and certainly one of them addressed the mysterious Challenge Endgame, although it is nonetheless a bit imprecise. It does sound like we weren’t far off with the sport streaming comparisons, although it could go a bit additional than that.
“Intel is decided to decrease the limitations that may generally make PC gaming troublesome immediately. Recreation compatibility points, lengthy obtain occasions, excessive efficiency variability and frequent patches and updates are just some. Fixing these requires investments and improvements in software program applied sciences like cloud computing and world providers.” Pearce explains within the submit.
“Challenge Endgame is a unified providers layer that harnesses computing assets in all places – cloud, edge, and your property, to enhance your gaming, and non-gaming, PC experiences. With Challenge Endgame, we will untether our customers from their native {hardware} specs. Challenge Endgame is paving the roads for the subsequent decade of real-time GPU experiences for Intel, with the objective of petaflops of compute accessible at a number of millisecond latency, and beginning in Q2 of this yr we’ll take our first public steps.”
The present iteration of GeForce Now, for example, lets you remotely lease an Nvidia PC to stream video games to your supported screen. Challenge Endgame sounds related, however it may have a bigger scope, past video games. This implies we may see purposes for advanced computations with out having to personal a pc that may deal with them. Artists may lease one thing to run their most popular packages.
If the value is pleasant sufficient, that is precisely what I hoped to see based mostly on the preliminary presentation that gave the impression to be hinting at this sort of use. Computing energy made accessible, particularly for individuals who could also be hobbyists or not utilizing it on a regular basis.
That is nonetheless simply extra hypothesis based mostly on the drips of knowledge Intel is giving out. Given it was answered main as much as the Arc presentation on the thirtieth, maybe we’ll discover out extra concrete details about the brand new service then.
