Intel says it will ship four million Arc Alchemist GPUs in 2022, including mobile graphics, graphics cards, and workstation GPUs, with discrete graphics cards coming as soon as April.
Ahead of its investor meeting this afternoon, Intel announced that it would be shipping more than four million Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs this year, with discrete graphics cards landing as early as April. The news was included in a press kit for the investor event, and we expect that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger or someone from Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group (AXG) will elaborate more on the news starting around 4:30PM EST. « AXG expects to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022, » the press material reads. « OEMs are introducing notebooks with Intel Arc graphics, code-named Alchemist, for sale in the first quarter of 2022. Intel will ship add-in cards for desktops in the second quarter and workstations by the third quarter. » Intel also says that it has started architecture design work on Celestial, « a product that will address the ultra-enthusiast segment. » We know that Arc Alchemist isn’t aiming to compete with the best graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia in terms of raw performance just yet, but will instead target the lower-end of the market at first.
