Intel plans to ship at least 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022, the company said in its presentation at the ongoing 2022 investor meeting. The Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group (AXG), headed by Raja Koduri, announced this bold goal.
The company has announced its first release of graphics cards in the first quarter of 2022 with the ambitious new Arc "Alchemist" discrete GPU for laptops (before April). This will be followed by desktop versions debuting in Q2 2022 (before July), before professional visualization (workstation category) debuting in Q3 2022 (before October).
Collectively, the company plans to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs over the course of the year. Intel has announced more than 50 original equipment manufacturers and third-party companies "AICs" designs as winners. Of course, this is very important news, as it indicates that the Arc "Alchemist" series graphics cards will not only be sold in OEM/SI channels, but also in the DIY retail channels and markets.
Among the familiar brands in the DIY space that Intel will be working with are ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE. The company works with more than 100 software ecosystem partners, or ISVs, to optimize their current and upcoming applications and games for the Xe HPG graphical architecture. This includes support for XeSS performance optimization technology (similar to AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS), and DeepLink, a virtualization technology for controlling graphics processing resources.
Intel plans to release a new generation of Arc approximately every year for the next three years, starting with "Alchemist" in 2022, followed by "Battlemage" sometime in 2023-2024, and finally "Celestial" after 2024.
