Intel launches Arc graphics chips for gaming laptops
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It feels like ages ago when Intel first started working on its discrete graphics chips, which are finally shipping soon under the Intel Arc brand name.
A trio of Intel Arc graphics chip families are hitting the market starting in April and then rolling out further in the summer with a focus on thin-and-light gaming laptops.
Getting this far is a kind of miracle for Intel, which lost its biggest battle in graphics in the 1990s when Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices’ Radeon graphics chips stole the market for standalone graphics chips. Intel held onto its edge in central processing units (CPUs), but graphics processing units (GPUs) gained a lot of value in the system as 3D games came of age and again when parallel processing took off for AI computing.
Intel still got a big chunk of the market, as focused on integrated graphics that combined graphics with another part of the system. But it always had its eye on the standalone graphics chip market, and now it is finally dueling with AMD and Nvidia again in going after lucrative gamers.
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The first laptops with Intel Arc 3 GPUs are available to preorder now and will be followed by the more powerful designs with Intel Arc 5 and Intel Arc 7 graphics in early summer.
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