Intel Arc Desktop GPUs Could Arrive As Late As August
Intel has recently entered the GPU market with the recent unveiling of its Arc cards for laptop, putting it in the race against the other two veterans of the industry. With AMD looking to decimate its competitors with RDNA 3 towards the latter parts of this year, team red and bitter rivals Nvidia are looking to move forward with the next graphics card generation. However, team blue still seems to be lagging behind, and now there's a chance that the desktop versions of its long-awaited product have been pushed back some more.
According to a report from Igor's Lab, as referenced by Tom's Hardware, Alchemist desktop GPUs from Intel may not hit the shelves until late summer, with an unknown source saying that they may not arrive until the end of August. It needs to be said that this has not been confirmed by the company, but if there is a delay, the report goes on to say that it's likely to be down to issues with the drivers.
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This will likely be frustrating to many waiting in the wings, especially as it was alleged that Intel delayed the Arc card until June as it is, which means there will be even longer to wait, if the rumor is true. At this stage, all people can do is wait and see whether the tech giant makes any announcements about it. Of course, with Intel being very quiet about changing the release date of the Arc from «Q1 2022» to just simply «2022,» it's likely that the company may not wish to say anything about this new push back.
Even when it does finally come out, there is still the problem of whether enough people will be able to purchase it or not. With Intel's own CEO saying that the chip shortages could go on until 2024, the deficit that the market has experienced
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