After confusing users and being silent about the arrival of their Arc Alchemist GPUs, Intel has finally given approximate launch dates for them. The most important thing is that not all of them will arrive at the same time, but each quarter the models for each sector will arrive.
But that is not all, since they have announced a service called Project Endgame, in which they rent GPUs in the cloud. In the absence of details, it sounds like the same service as Google Stadia and NVIDIA GeForce Now, which allows you to play games in high quality from any device thanks to the cloud since the game runs in a data center.
Intel GPUs will arrive little by little
According to a tweet from Intel's graphics division, the Arc Alchemist for notebooks will arrive throughout this quarter, so in the coming weeks we should see announcements of notebooks with an Intel Arc Alchemist. Between April and June will be when the desktop Intel Arc Alchemist arrives, which are the ones that gamers want, since they will allow them to have a new graphics card without having to buy an entire laptop.
Finally, July and September will see the arrival of the Intel Arc Alchemist for workstations, which are what creative professionals will want for their video editing, 3D layout and other programs. This would be the release schedule for the Alchemist models, and for next year the Battlemage would be expected.
We can expect that in a few weeks Intel will make an official statement with the characteristics of their models, including VRAMs, PCie connection, CUDA cores, clock speed, and above all, prices and accessibility. The arrival of Intel to the world of graphics cards can help to have more stock and stores have to start lowering the premiums to sell them to consumers, since the cryptocurrency mining with charts it is less and less profitable and more in the long term.
Source: The Verge
