Intel’s recent online investor briefing has laid out plenty of grand plans for the company’s future. We learned a bit more about the Arc Alchemist GPUs Intel is dropping in the future, including that we can even expect to see them paired with Meteor Lake CPUs for increased performance. We also know that Intel isn’t stopping there, and plans to target the ultra-enthusiast market with the Celestial line up of GPUs even further down the line.
One thing we didn’t get a lot of clarity on during the presentations was Project Endgame. It was only briefly mentioned during Senior Vice President and General Manager of Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group, Raja Koduri’s Accelerated Computing & Graphics presentation. But it looks like Endgame could be Intel’s answer to services like Nvidia GeForce now or Xbox’s Cloud gaming that allow users to essentially remotely borrow a beefy PC somewhere in the world to stream games to their device at home.
«We are taking it one step further with launching a software infrastructure initiative called 'Endgame' this year. Endgame will enable users and developers access to Arc GPUs as a continual compute service. An always available, low latency, persistent, immersive infrastructure.» Koduri explains in the Accelerated Computing & Graphics presentation.
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This certainly sounds a lot like those other services, and it’s good to see more competition entering the market on PC streaming renting. There’s plenty of ambiguity in that speech but unlike GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud this could be geared towards more than just gaming. There
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