Stefan Mileschin

We have got two animals but this might take longer than 40 days and nights

Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update on the state of Intel’s first generation of Arc graphics and it looks like that it will be a long time before we see anything.

The former AMD GPU cheerleader confirmed that while Intel will indeed ship the first Arc mobile products in the current quarter, desktop products will not come until the second quarter. Intel is now projecting that they’ll ship 4mil+ Arc GPUs this year.

This confirmed some earlier suspicions that Chipzilla would get its mobile Arc products out before their desktop products. Desktop products will now follow in the second quarter of this year, a couple of months behind the mobile parts. And finally, workstation products, which Intel has previously hinted at, are on their way and will land in the third quarter.

Koduri did not provide further details as to why Intel has its much-awaited Arc Alchemist architecture-based desktop products trailing their mobile products by a quarter. The Alchemist family is comprised of two GPUs and it might be that Intel is farther ahead on manufacturing and delivering the smaller of the two GPUs, which would be best suited for laptops.

https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/5...ate-of-the-arc