Intel plans to ship over 4 million discrete GPUs this year, including new Arc graphics

Intel'southward upcoming Arc GPUs should compete with the all-time graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA. The visitor appears to have bullish plans for the GPUs, including aircraft more than than 4 1000000 of them in 2022. Intel recently outlined some of its plans to investors (via PC Gamer). In addition to sharing plans for Intel Arc, the chipmaker teased its upcoming Celestial graphics, which will target high-end enthusiasts.

"AXG expects to ship more four million discrete GPUs in 2022," said Intel to investors. "OEMs are introducing notebooks with Intel Arc graphics, lawmaking-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 tertiary quarter."

AXG is the shortened name for Intel'southward Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Grouping, which is in charge of the visitor'due south discrete GPUs.

The outset Arc graphics should roll out at some indicate in the kickoff quarter of 2022. The starting time wave of Arc GPUs will likely be for mobile devices, such as laptops. In the 2d quarter of 2022, Intel should start shipping Arc GPUs for desktops. Finally, workstation cards should come out in the tertiary quarter of 2022.

Intel also teased its Celestial compages to investors, though information technology didn't share many details. The Celestial lineup volition "address the ultra-enthusiast segment," co-ordinate to Intel.

Updated February 2022

Windows 11 review: The start of a new era

Microsoft is dorsum with a roaring passion to create a mod version of the Windows user experience that'due south elementary to apply, beautifully designed, and well-continued, all in an effort to make you more productive in your professional person or creative workflows. Only, is it any good?