Friday, October 18th 2019
Intel Could Unveil First Discrete 10 nm GPUs in mid-2020
According to the sources close to DigiTimes, Intel will unveil its first discrete 10 nm graphics cards named "Xe" very soon, with the first wave of Xe GPUs expected to arrive some time in 2020. Said to launch mid year, around July or August, Intel will start selling initial Xe GPU models of the long awaited product to consumers, in hope of gaining a share in the massive market using GPU for acceleration of all kinds of tasks.
Perhaps one of the most interesting notes DigiTimes reported is that "... Intel's GPUs have already received support from the upstream supply chain and has already been integrated into Intel's CPUs to be used in the datacenter and AI fields.", meaning that AIB partners already have access to first 10 nm graphics chips that are ready for system integration. First generation of Xe graphics cards will cover almost whole GPU market, including PC, datacenter, and AI applications where NVIDIA currently holds the top spot.
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DigiTimes
Perhaps one of the most interesting notes DigiTimes reported is that "... Intel's GPUs have already received support from the upstream supply chain and has already been integrated into Intel's CPUs to be used in the datacenter and AI fields.", meaning that AIB partners already have access to first 10 nm graphics chips that are ready for system integration. First generation of Xe graphics cards will cover almost whole GPU market, including PC, datacenter, and AI applications where NVIDIA currently holds the top spot.
35 Comments on Intel Could Unveil First Discrete 10 nm GPUs in mid-2020
Whereas AFAIK the single Xe render that made the most buzz was this - short, dark, elegant, utilitarian.
What happened?
But as with 10nm CPUs, I'll believe it when I see it. Oh, I 'memba that...
Joking aside, I actually hope they will make a capable gaming gpu in the future, bring big green down a peg and in general tripple competition > dual competition.
Was it all the technical know-how and leading team of engineers who produced CPU with near-monopoly? Was it reasonable that they will catch and overcome opposition *then*? Or start thinking about it when GPUs, this time with the term in existence, started to be important, dominant sometimes, component of super-computers, Intel was so interested on?
With this in mind, I just ignore any Intel-makes-GPU-which-rules rumours. Especially over "whole range" - yeah, maybe by performance, but with great likeness of price being 2x higher than similarly performing GPU.
In comical, or sad - depending on side you're looking at to, history of Intel-made GPU, one man only, named Raja, will change everything!
Right! Exclusively caused by people who made all the progress in graphical cards and later GPUs in last 30 years, ALL of which had inherent burning hatred towards both Intel and piles of treasure alike, also applied to their associates, 'students', relatively young engineers having a knowledge and experience in the practice - dare even to call it a conspiracy - so, for that reason, Intel was grossly hurt by the world, but now their hour is nigh!
Whole conspiracy is suddenly off, and a man called Raja and few other snatched engineers will lead Intel in the lands of light (represented by nothing less than ray-traced light, so I've heard), justice and fair competition! And beyond(TM)!
Because things work like that.
And people blame AMD for hyping shit, they got nothing on Intel this time.
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Intel was once dominant (still is i think) in the "VGA" market because it delivered plenty of motherboards with a IGP. There was no need to have a additional graphics card if the only purpose was web/word/excel/printing.
I don't know what you'd expect.
"Concrete information" like what? Performance? They won't give you that. No serious company would.
Can I just add that as a marketing name, Xe, is utterly shit? How do you even say it? ('Kzeh')?
I hope they succeed, because more players mean customers better served and more options to choose from. Maybe I could add a Xe card as a compute card besides my GTX1080 and have the ultimate Frankenstein PC with AMD Ryzen CPU, Nvidia GTX GPU and Intel Xe as compute/AI accelerator :cool:
AMD on the other hand...
It's almost impossible to think this could be any worse than Polaris.
Intel is new in large GPUs and they'll make rookie mistakes. Well. I hope they'll succeed simply because today GPGPU acceleration is not a rarely used novelty anymore. And I do hope Intel Xe (or whatever results from this project) becomes a mainstream standard - scaling from tiny IGP to large HPC chips.