Friday, April 8th 2022
Laptops with Arc Graphics Nowhere in Sight, Intel Says Wait Till June
Intel in March 2022 kicked off its ambitious campaign to grab a slice of the consumer graphics market, with its Arc "Alchemist" line of discrete GPUs, based on the Xe-HPG graphics architecture. The announcement mentioned an immediate availability of at least the entry-level Arc 3-series GPU models in notebooks generally available. These GPU models include the Arc A350M and Arc A370M. People on social media are beginning to ask Intel why these notebooks are nowhere in sight, and the company responded.
In response to one such query by a user, Intel Support stated that laptops with Arc will be available "by the end of the second quarter of 2022." This would put general availability in June 2022, two months from now. Interestingly, this hasn't stopped laptop manufacturers from raking in pre-orders, with the likes of the Acer Swift X and Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro up for "grabs." You can "purchase" the Swift X, but shipping dates are stated to be as late as May 23 (now pushed to June 13).
Sources:
Intel Support (Twitter), VideoCardz
In response to one such query by a user, Intel Support stated that laptops with Arc will be available "by the end of the second quarter of 2022." This would put general availability in June 2022, two months from now. Interestingly, this hasn't stopped laptop manufacturers from raking in pre-orders, with the likes of the Acer Swift X and Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro up for "grabs." You can "purchase" the Swift X, but shipping dates are stated to be as late as May 23 (now pushed to June 13).
52 Comments on Laptops with Arc Graphics Nowhere in Sight, Intel Says Wait Till June
Vapourware is stillll Vapourware bois.
On time? No.
amd's marketing scared them back. :p
Marketing wise he is a complete and utter fail, that's clear enough though :D
They're not going to be competing on mid-range and high-end on first gen Arc by any stretch of the imagination, this much is now certain. They screwed that up, royally.
I'm still keeping some hope that they will compete on the lowest end, though. If intel could come up with RX580 performance for a cool 100 dollars, with acceptable drivers, I would still consider that a major win on at least one market segment.
active since 1996 in the space, its not like he just entered the scene or anything, he has been around long enough to earn some respect imo.
Apart from that, is he really a complete and utter fail? because Im pretty sure people are rather obsessed with intel's offering, being negative or positive a large number of people cant stop talking about what isnt even released yet.
So, while still waiting to see what Arc is up to, mobile SKUs get a definite meh from me.
There are a LOT of senior engineers that have done a whole lot more for being in the biz nearly 30 years... I think this is a typical case of someone who can sell himself well before most other things.
And as for us talking about unreleased content again... lol? Its not us producing those PR stories every other day is it? See its a lot easier for Raja or Intel to just STFU, but they are so keen on keeping people attached to their new release they keep shoveling empty messages at us.
Remember Poor Volta , nobody asked for that either... but it killed Vega right then and there, it backfired massively.
I'm looking forward to the dGPUs, I want one of those Arc LEs (major Vega FE vibes). Intel can take their sweet time, I got bills to pay in the meantime :roll:
I think Arc will have a newness issue for the first year, even if Intel manages to have full API compliance in their drivers and relative stability, they will still have to deal with a lot of games outright blacklisting the 8086 hardware ID (because of how notoriously bad their graphics were over the years) and the distinct lack of band-aid fixes for all of the jank, spec violations and unusual practices that AMD and NVIDIA have covered driver-side over the past two decades or so.
I find this product exciting but even as a veteran beta tester I would hardly daily this myself
Most possibly that they discovered both hw problems that are solving by additional tapeouts and drivers that need much more polish.
It's all good from a business point of view though. Significant sales only begin with the back to school season. Plenty of time till then for us to read reviews and Intel to fix their drivers :D