This is something that has been speculated about in recent months and has finally been confirmed by Intel itself, via the executive director Brian Krzanich. The estimated date for the arrival of Intel’s first dedicated GPUs is 2020, confirming recent leaks.
Intel, AMD and NVIDIA will compete in GPU market from 2020 onwards
This is the first official confirmation of Intel’s ambitious plan to enter the graphics card market, and not just the embedded GPU sector. So, starting in 2020, we will have three manufacturers making graphics cards, Intel, NVIDIA and AMD.
At the same time, this eliminates some rumours that had arisen about a possible Intel graphics card in 2019. It typically takes a company about 3 years to get a GPU from the labs to the stores, so planning for 2020 will be an ambitious goal for Raja Koduri’s team.
We know that Intel works on two GPUs, Arctic Sound and Jupiter Sound. Arctic Sound will be the first iteration of the discrete GPU and will be the company’s 12th generation graphics system. According to Eassa, they will be manufactured using the EMIB (Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge) to connect to the processor, which makes them very similar to the Intel 8809G they designed together with AMD.
Arctic Sound, it seems, will also have a gaming’ variant. The tentative schedule given for this product is for the year 2020, with an MCM chip with multiple arrays connected through EMIB. Intel is entering the graphics card market to take on the AMD-NVIDIA duo, and it’s certainly not going to be easy to make room for two already well-established companies.
Jupite Sound, for its part, will be Arctic’s successor but is unknown when it arrives.
Intel's first discrete GPU coming in 2020: https://t.co/s9EPeFifBp pic.twitter.com/n5zmUY2Mc2
— Intel News (@intelnews) June 12, 2018
It typically takes a company about 3 years to get a GPU from the labs to the stores, so planning for 2020 will be an ambitious goal for Raja Koduri’s team.
We know that Intel works on two GPUs, Arctic Sound and Jupiter Sound. Arctic Sound will be the first iteration of the discrete GPU and will be the company’s 12th generation graphics system. According to Eassa, they will be manufactured using the EMIB (Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge) to connect to the processor, which makes them very similar to the Intel 8809G they designed together with AMD.
Jupite Sound, for its part, will be Arctic’s successor but is unknown when it arrives.
More competition in the market can mean more options for PC users, so we can only take that as very good news.