- Intel has sent a new job ad on LinkedIn
- It’s for an engineer to work on high-end discreet graphics card
- Some have worried that the deal that Intel struck with nvidia
Since the announcement of the large Intel and Nvidia agreement, where Team Green will give RTX GPU chiplets to Intels SOCs in laptops and handheld (and more in addition), some doubt has been thrown over the future of Team Blue’s own graphics solutions.
Intel has clarified that the new Nvidia partnership does not change its existing GPU timetable, but the more skeptical among us has certainly been concerned about what this might mean for Team Blue’s discreet ARC GPUs in particular, although the work apparently continues with these products.
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Why would Intel advertise someone to work on a high-end desktop GPU if it was about to ditch the entire arc of discreet graphics card area? Presumably it wouldn’t; Although a single job ad does not give us the full picture here.
It is still an optimistic hint that the work will continue with bow graphics card and that Intel plows with his discreet GPU effort as well as with third general integrated graphics (XE3, known as Celestial on the desk).
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What we don’t know is what graphics card this can be. Are there plans for an advanced heavenly GPU? A leak that chimens into X (Redgamingtech) falls a guard tip that it may be druid (which is the fourth gene area for ARC). There have been too Rumors of a high-end battlemage graphics card that may still be incoming. Your guess is as good as mine – for what it is worth is a sky product, what my money is here.
In some ways, it doesn’t matter what this product actually turns out to be – if there is a product at all – but the important thing here is that this is a clear tip that Intel does not give up its desktop graphics cards. Or at least the business is not planning to do it yet …
To be clear, Intel has not stated that it will nevertheless drop the desktop GPU development. The company has simply said that its existing roadmap remains the same without specifically clarifying that this means discreet GPUs that leave some room for doubt; Especially because honestly, there has been some serious doubt about the future of the ARC Desktop Graphics card.
We have seen discreet GPU sales figures that suggest that at this point – two generations in the arc lineup (Alchemist came first, then battle) – Intel has less than 1% of the market (NVIDIA holds a monopoly of 94%). Which causes me to worry me that if this reflects the market relatively accurately, Team Blue may be considering saving a lot of money that will undoubtedly be pumped into the R&D to the arc Discrete range by simply getting rid of it.
Still, we have had clarification from other places, which PC Gamer reports that the new NVIDIA agreement is more about the data center than consumer -PCs. And according to Youtuber Moore’s Law, Dead’s sources are any influence on the consumer front is likely not to be felt until at least 2028 with Intel’s Titan Lake, which could come with an integrated GPU from NVIDIA (possibly in some chips where others still use integrated ARC graphics).
That said, Moore’s law has died much down to the prospects of arc of arc -Diskrete GPUs and calls them effectively dead at this time. And unfortunately, I can easily imagine that discreet arches will be canned (eventually), even though this job ad is at least a reason for some optimism.
And if we see an advanced battlemage graphics card arise in the near future rumors have blown up rather hot and cold on this one, but apparently it will still be an even more hopeful sign, especially if it is priced well and maybe starting to excrete a more GPU market share for Intel.
I definitely feel it would be a shame to lose this third horse from the Graphics Card Race desktop. The existing battlemage (B580 and 570) GPUs have been nicely placed competitors with a great value proposition.
