Tuesday, May 10th 2022

Intel Confirms: Arc Mobile Rollout Facing Delays, Desktop Debut On Track for Q2-2022

Intel Graphics on Monday, in a blog post by Lisa Pearce, VP and GM for the Visual Compute Group, answered three important questions around the launch timelines of its elusive Arc Graphics "Alchemist" discrete GPUs for notebooks and desktops. The already-launched Arc mobile GPUs are already being installed on gaming notebooks in production, but Intel blames COVID and the supply-chain crisis in East Asia for delays. Arc 3-series notebooks should be available "ASAP," while Arc 5-series and 7-series powered notebooks should start becoming available in "early Summer." Intel maintains a Summer 2022 launch timeline for desktop Arc graphics cards, and stated that the company will launch entry-level Arc 3-series discrete GPUs first, as OEM-exclusives in Q2-2022, followed by retail availability exclusively in China, with general worldwide availability expected "later this Summer."
An excerpt from the blog post follows:

Question #1: Can you update us on the status of your Intel Arc graphics mobile products?

We have been working closely with OEM partners to get Intel Arc graphics mobile designs fully launched. First was Samsung who started with availability in Korea and is expanding globally. We planned to have broader OEM availability at this point; however, we have had some software readiness delays and, together with COVID lock downs impacting global supply chains, OEM designs are only this month becoming more widely available.

Despite the constraints, our OEM partners have announced laptops with Intel Arc 3 graphics - including Samsung, Lenovo, Acer, HP, and Asus - and we are working with our partners to help them get these products into market ASAP. Laptops with Intel Arc 5 and Arc 7 graphics will start becoming available in early summer.

Question #2: When are the desktop cards with Intel Arc graphics coming?

Unlike notebook designs, desktop systems have a vast set of combinations, including memory, motherboards, and CPUs. To initially limit some of this variation, we will launch working with system builders and OEMs with specific configurations.

We will release our entry-level Intel Arc A-series products for desktops (A3) first in China through system builders and OEMs in Q2. Etail and retail component sales will follow shortly in China as well. Proximity to board components and strong demand for entry-level discrete products makes this a natural place to start. Our next step will be to scale these products globally.

Roll-out of Intel Arc A5 and A7 desktop cards will start worldwide with OEMs and system integrators later this summer, followed by component sales in worldwide channels.

This staggered approach gives us confidence at each step that we can effectively serve our customer base.

Question #3: In an earlier blog you mentioned a driver toggle for certain benchmark specific optimizations. What is the status of that?

Apologies for not updating the community on this earlier. During our evaluation of this feature, we decided to go a step further and implement a system to allow users to control collections of our driver-based optimizations, including memory management options, constant folding, and others. We will collect related toggles into groups to allow end user customization. This has required additional development time, but we believe this will be the best solution for our Intel Arc graphics customers, and we'll circle back in the next few weeks on when we expect to post the first driver with this capability.
Source: Intel
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57 Comments on Intel Confirms: Arc Mobile Rollout Facing Delays, Desktop Debut On Track for Q2-2022

#51
Steevo
phanbueyUh oh the oneandonlymrKaren is back with her incomprehensible babble.
Please good sir, avoid the ad hominem attacks as they make your argument weaker than it is.
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#52
phanbuey
SteevoPlease good sir, avoid the ad hominem attacks as they make your argument weaker than it is.
Also:
SteevoI bet you get excited for the Kia car announcements and had a Kia on your wall as a kid instead of a supercar, plain looking people excite you, not supermodels, you like cream without the ice as it hurts your sensitive tummy, vanilla is for wild people that like to live on the edge?
To be fair tho, I do... I get excited about Kias
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#53
TheoneandonlyMrK
phanbueyUh oh the oneandonlymrKaren is back with her incomprehensible babble.
phanbueyAlso:


To be fair tho, I do... I get excited about Kias
Irony.

And clearly it's about time we got back on topic , not that you were but, ,,.
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#54
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SteevoPlease good sir, avoid the ad hominem attacks as they make your argument weaker than it is.
"What do I win boss man?"

Pot, kettle?

I think there were a fair few shit chucking off comment posts tbh not just phanbuey's
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#55
Steevo
Tigger"What do I win boss man?"

Pot, kettle?

I think there were a fair few shit chucking off comment posts tbh not just phanbuey's
We are all monkeys in this zoo, covered in poo.

Look, Im a poet and didn't know it.
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Vayra86And yet they could not scale the way those games run (not too inconsistent at all, just slower) to their beautiful Xe even after three years of excessive trying. Its an inconsistent stuttery mess. So does their IGP run games, sure. But it doesn't speak for their discrete stuff or even the new architecture they have, which IS new and IS built to scale. This is the whole point. Making a weak GPU is easy, trailing the competition is easy, you have lots of ways to keep up (bigger dies, moving units a tier down, clocking, mature process, etc.), but chasing the cutting edge AND doing it efficiently is another story completely. If your arch is not scaling properly, you're fucked. We've seen this every single time when there were clear winners and losers each gen. Fury vs 980ti because Hawaii XT could not go further is a fantastic example. Radeon VII after Vega, fail upon fail, late to market, and AMD was literally stuck at that perf level for years on end. Even RDNA's first iteration could not save the day just yet.
The Radeon VII has greatly inflated value in the used market now though -- because it's that good at cryptomining. Maybe it's a late bloomer?
SteevoWe are all monkeys in this zoo, covered in poo.

Look, Im a poet and didn't know it.
This is very insensitive to monkeys.
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Vayra86
phanbueyAlso:


To be fair tho, I do... I get excited about Kias
KIA's new EV is pretty damn good. So yeah. If Intel is Kia... where's my 7 year warranty on that TIM and overclock? I must say using Intel CPUs right now is like driving a Kia, too. No sense of motion or control in the steering wheel, but it sure does move :D
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