Intel announces high-performance graphics brand 'Intel Arc', codename of next-generation and later architecture revealed



Intel announced the consumer high-performance graphics brand ' Intel Arc ' on August 16, 2021. Intel says it will bring the first discrete gaming graphics boards and GPUs for laptops to market in the first quarter of 2022.

Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/introducing-discrete-graphics-brand-intel-arc.html

Intel® Arc ™ Graphics – Let's Play
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/visual-technology/arc-discrete-graphics.html

Intel Arc Announced:'Alchemist' Discrete Gaming GPUs Land In Q1 2022 | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-branding-announced-alchemist-discrete-gpus-land-in-q1-2022

You can find out more about the discrete GPU product 'Intel Xe Graphics' developed by Intel, which has been developing integrated graphics for over 20 years, by reading the following article.

Intel's graphics division manager talks about Intel's next-generation GPU 'Xe graphics' --GIGAZINE



'Intel Arc' announced this time will be a brand name used by multiple hardware generations, including the first generation based on the Xe-HPG (High Performance Graphics) microarchitecture codenamed 'Alchemist'. It was also revealed that the codenames for the second and subsequent generations of microarchitecture are 'Battlemage,' 'Celestial,' and 'Druid.'



Regarding what the GPU with Alchemist architecture will look like in 2022, Intel said that it 'has hardware-based ray tracing and AI-driven supersampling,' and NVIDIA's AI processing technology ' DLSS Anton Kaplanyan who is the original developer of' is, has revealed that it is involved in the development of AI-related technology of Intel Xe. 'Intel Arc GPUs will have full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate, including mesh shading and high-performance ray tracing, and high-performance neural supersampling will be announced separately,' Kaplanyan tweeted.



'Today, an important moment for the graphics brand we started a few years ago has arrived. With the launch of Intel Arc,' said Roger Chandler, general manager of Intel's consumer graphics products and solutions division. The release of future hardware generations demonstrates Intel's deep and ongoing commitment to gamers and creators around the world. When these products are launched in early 2022, they will have the best and smoothest experience. Our team will do a great job of delivering it. '



In addition, PC hardware related news site Tom's Hardware has an Alchemist architecture core-equipped graphics card with 512 execution units, manufactured by TSMC's process node, Intel's first discrete GPU-equipped graphics card ' Iris Xe DG1 I expect it to be more powerful than.

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