Monday, February 21st 2022
Intel Plans to Ship 4 Million GPUs to Gamers in 2022
Intel plans to ship no less than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022, the company stated in its Investor Meeting 2022 presentation. The Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group (AXG), headed by Raja Koduri, announced this bold target. The company announced a Q1-2022 debut of its ambitious new Arc "Alchemist" discrete GPU for notebooks (before April). This is to be followed by a desktop debut in Q2-2022 (before July), before a professional-visualization (workstation-class) debut in Q3 (before October). All put together, the company plans to ship over 4 million discrete GPUs over the year.
Intel announced over 50 design wins for OEMs and "AICs." This is big, as it denotes that Arc "Alchemist" graphics cards won't just be sold in the OEM/SI channel, but also the DIY retail channel. Among the familiar brands in the DIY space from the Intel slide are ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE. The company is working with over 100 software-ecosystem partners or ISVs, to optimize their current and upcoming applications and games, for the Xe HPG graphics architecture. This includes support for the XeSS performance enhancement (analogous to AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS), and DeepLink, a graphics processing resource virtualization tech. Intel plans to launch a new generation of Arc almost every year for the next 3 years, starting with "Alchemist" in 2022, "Battlemage" somewhere around 2023-2024, and "Celestial" after 2024.
Intel announced over 50 design wins for OEMs and "AICs." This is big, as it denotes that Arc "Alchemist" graphics cards won't just be sold in the OEM/SI channel, but also the DIY retail channel. Among the familiar brands in the DIY space from the Intel slide are ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE. The company is working with over 100 software-ecosystem partners or ISVs, to optimize their current and upcoming applications and games, for the Xe HPG graphics architecture. This includes support for the XeSS performance enhancement (analogous to AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS), and DeepLink, a graphics processing resource virtualization tech. Intel plans to launch a new generation of Arc almost every year for the next 3 years, starting with "Alchemist" in 2022, "Battlemage" somewhere around 2023-2024, and "Celestial" after 2024.
20 Comments on Intel Plans to Ship 4 Million GPUs to Gamers in 2022
They'll release when a glut of ex miner cards hit eBay and prices drop.
Tools missed their opportunity.
I'll believe it when we actually see one.
EDIT: the 45-50 million is only AIB numbers and Intel includes also the mobile chips, so the target is actually a lot less than half of what AMD is selling but still considering the TSMC supply situation, the target is high enough imo
If they are planning to ship 4 million to gamers I wonder how many they intend to ship in 2022, if scalpers and miners want 10 million cards. And who is fabbing these?? Intel or Samsung or TSMC?
my first thought (reading title)was that Intel was planning on shipping a huge number of GPUs, by speculating that only 4 million would reach gamers. I'd like to be optimistic about this, but with the current trends, it seems a little far fetched.
2) This is added TSMC production capacity because, unlike AMD, they are dedicating their entire run to GPU production. This is extra on top of what we were already getting, which means instead of producing phone SOC's or whatever this line was doing before, it's now making GPU's. 4 million extra GPU's is nice even if not super impressive.
3) Too bad they are going to use AIB companies that are already fleecing us with absurd markups. No reason for them to stop just because it's Intel instead of AMD or Nvidia on the box.