Whether and how long that will remain the case is a different question.
Our Jeremy said it best when he reported on the surprise announcement of an Intel-Nvidia collaboration yesterday: it’s cats living with dogs. Naturally, such a strange occurrence has led people to question just how it will affect current product roadmaps—especially Intel Arc. On that front, thankfully, Intel says things are business as usual.
An Intel spokesperson has supplied a statement to the media saying that: «collaboration is complementary to Intel’s roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings» (via PC World and Hot Hardware). That’s pretty unambiguous, at least for the short term.
Intel’s roadmap, to be clear, currently includes at least two new generations of processor containing its Arc Xe3 iGPUs: Panther Lake and Nova Lake. The former should launch relatively soon, will be mobile (ie, laptop)-only, and will at least in part be made using the company’s new 18A node—although early yields apparently aren’t looking too promising. The latter will arrive later and should have both desktop and mobile options, just like current-gen Arrow Lake, and looks to be made on TSMC’s N2 node.
One key bit in the midst of this is that Arc Xe architecture and outside of that its discrete graphics cards. Intel first launched an Arc GPU in 2022, and since then it’s pushed out two generations of discrete Arc graphics cards.
