Intel Confirms Arc Alchemist Desktop GPUs Launching Q2 2022, Teases Third-Gen “Celestial” GPUs and “Project Endgame” Game Streaming Service

[Tsing]

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Intel held its 2022 Investor Meeting today, and among the many exciting announcements was some information pertaining to the company’s long-awaited GPUs in its Arc Alchemist series.



According to a writeup on the Intel Newsroom and a tweet from the official Intel Graphics Twitter account, Intel’s first Arc GPUs will begin rolling out this quarter for notebook devices, followed by desktop and workstation models in Q2 and Q3, respectively. Teasing the future, Intel also confirmed that it has already begun work on the architecture behind Celestial, the third generation of the company’s Xe-HPG series that will apparently include “ultra-enthusiast” products—high-performance GPUs that can compete with some of NVIDIA and AMD’s flagship offerings, presumably.



Last but not least is something called “Project Endgame,” which sounds like some sort of game streaming service...

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[Brian_B]

I'm waiting for the NFT edition.

Has the first generation of these actually shipped? Was that the OEM card that was only available from like 2 vendors and locked to the motherboard?

Also... didn't miss: Shipping this quarter... for notebooks. Desktop ~and!~ workstation models later this year.

I thought they would just lean on their IGP for notebooks...

I seriously see nothing but hype from this team. I am totally expecting another Fury situation, where it with it's 4G of HBM was hyped to the moon, and it wasn't bad, per say, but it had no chance of living up to the hype and fell pretty flat.

 

[Grimlakin]

Someone wake me up if they actually get something released other than a statement to perhaps garner more investment speculation. We all get it Intel wants that sweet gamer and miner dollar. I hope they have the best card for mining ever that operates on miliwats and draws every miner to switch to their cards only.