But, yup, you guessed it, this is all for AI, not gaming. Probably.
Yesterday, I reported on claims that Intel’s hotly anticipated Arc B770 gaming graphics card is toast. Now comes news direct from Intel’s CEO that the company is committed to building future GPUs and has just hired a new Chief Architect to lead the charge.
If that’s all a bit bewildering, there is, of course, a catch. It seems that those GPUs are for AI, not gaming. At least, that’s the implication.
Let’s start off with what Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan actually said. In response to the pretty unambiguous query, «does Intel build GPUs in the future?», Tan said this:
«Yes. And I just hired the Chief GPU architect. And then so he’s very good. I’m very delighted he joined me. And it takes some persuasions. And then I told him that not just CPU, GPU is also very important, different or different application workloads.»
As far as we are aware, it’s the first time Tan has made such a clear and unambiguous commitment to making GPUs since he arrived as CEO of Intel in March of 2025.
