Intel promises to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022
Intel is hosting an investor meeting later today and CEO Pat promised to deliver some news for gamers at the event. Well, ahead of that, Intel has released information on its Arc lineup of discrete graphics cards: they're coming to desktop in Q2, workstations in Q3, and Intel plans to ship four million of them by the end of the year.
It's the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group (AXG) that's responsible for the discrete GPUs we're holding out for, and apparently AXG is on track to ship its GPUs this year.
«AXG expects to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022,» Intel says in its investor materials. «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.»
Four million is a significant sum of GPUs, and we really need them. We were hoping for a decent lot of GPUs out of Intel this year following comments from Intel's chief architect Raja Koduri and CEO Pat Gelsinger in response to our open letter asking for help with the GPU shortage. It's looking like Intel's at least aiming to deliver on their words, and it would be a big push for Intel's maiden discrete GPU push.
I am with you, @pcgamer. This is a huge issue for PC gamers and the industry at large. @IntelGraphics is working hard to find a path towards the mission — getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every year https://t.co/bknQOvUMtiJanuary 29, 2022
As for timing, we had now expected for the first chips to come out in Q1, though we were aware prior that might only be the mobile discrete GPUs first.
It's Q2, then, for our discrete GPUs on desktop, and then followed up
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