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Intel “working hard” to sort out graphics card shortages with Arc GPUs“Millions” of new cards are the goal, though the way there is unclear
“Millions” of new cards are the goal, though the way there is unclear
Intel’s Arc graphics cardsare, despite apparent delays, likely to launch this year. And not just with the expectation of being good GPUs, but with the hope that they can fix one of the biggest vexations in PC gaming: a years-long component shortage that’s made all of thebest graphics cardsnearly impossible to buy at fair prices.
Intel graphics chief Raja Koduri is at least well aware of the pressure,tweetingthat the company is “working hard to find a path towards the mission - getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every year.” Koduri was responding to an open letter from our friends atPC Gamer, calling on Intel to finally toss an escape rope down the hardware hellmouth we’ve all found ourselves trapped in. Intel CEO Pat Gelsingeralso responded, claiming “We’re on it.”
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I am with you,@pcgamer. This is a huge issue for PC gamers and the industry at large.@IntelGraphicsis working hard to find a path towards the mission - getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every yearhttps://t.co/bknQOvUMti— Raja Koduri (@Rajaontheedge)January 29, 2022
I am with you,@pcgamer. This is a huge issue for PC gamers and the industry at large.@IntelGraphicsis working hard to find a path towards the mission - getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every yearhttps://t.co/bknQOvUMti
The Arc series could still avoid this, but available stock would indeed need to number in the millions. And Koduri, pointedly, hasn’t actually committed to that – only to making an effort to “find a path” in that direction. That may be tricky, given Intel are all but certain to face similar production problems to the ones that have slowed AMD and Nvidia’s GPU output; for instance, the first Arc Alchemist GPUs will use chips from TSMC, who also supply AMD, and have themselves warned of silicon shortages continuing on into 2023.
We’ll see, I suppose. These Arc GPUs definitely have the potential to form one of thebiggest hardware launches in 2022, alongside the likes of the Steam Deck, and I’m particularly curious to see how Intel’s XeSS upscaling tech compares toDLSS. But now the promises have been made, it’s all on Intel to keep to them.
