Intel's GPU brand 'Arc' roadmap updated, desktop shipment scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2022



At the Investor Conference held by Intel on February 17, 2022, we updated the roadmap for the high-performance graphics brand '

Arc ' for consumers. In addition to the information that desktop products will be shipped in the second quarter of 2022, an overview of the 3rd generation 'Celestial' was also introduced.

Intel Technology Roadmaps and Milestones
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-technology-roadmaps-milestones.html

Intel Arc Update: Alchemist Laptops Q1, Desktops Q2; 4mil GPUs Total for 2022
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17263/intel-arc-update-alchemist-laptops-q1-desktops-q2-4mil-gpus-total-for-2022

Raja Koduri, general manager of Intel's Computing Graphics Division (AXG), said the first-generation Alchemist desktop product under the Arc brand, based on the Xe-HPG microarchitecture , will ship in the second quarter of 2022. Announced that it will be. Following that, in support of the advance information announced at CES 2022 , we announced that Alchemist's mobile products will be shipped in the first quarter of 2022. In addition, it announced that it will ship products for workstations in the third quarter of 2022, and said that it expects to ship a total of more than 4 million Arc products by 2022.

No details have been given about the specifications of Alchemist products, but it is clear that it has hardware-based ray tracing and AI-driven supersampling for some time, and that it will be manufactured using TSMC's 6nm process. It has become.



In addition to Alchemist's information, Arc's third generation 'Celestial' is scheduled to appear at the conference after 2024, and the computing service 'Project Endgame' that can access Arc with low latency and permanently will be launched in the latter half of 2022. It was announced that it will be released, and that the architecture 'Falcon Shores' that aims to improve performance by combining x86 CPU and

Xe-HPC into one socket will be introduced in 2024.



In response to this announcement, hardware media AnandTech said, 'Intel is a relatively newcomer to the GPU industry compared to AMD and NVIDIA, and the production range of the foundry TSMC is also limited, so Intel's Even if a product outperforms other companies, it will take time to grow to the same scale. '

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