Intel Confirms It’s Releasing its Own Gaming GPU in 2020

Intel confirmed on Tuesday, June 12, that it's officially re-entering the discrete graphics market in 2020. Without providing any additional information, Intel simply linked back to a previous announcement revealing that former AMD Radeon graphics chip designer Raja Koduri is now Intel's chief architect and senior vice president of the new Core and Visual Computing Group. Intel's entry would make the company the third-largest player in the GPU market following AMD and Nvidia. For years Intel stuffed its own onboard graphics into its processors, and at one time even attempted to enter the discrete GPU market. But right now, Nvidia dominates the market, residing at the top of the totem pole followed by AMD's Radeon division. Intel apparently wants a slice of the GPU pie too. Outside its gaming ambitions, Intel's upcoming enterprise and datacenter-facing discrete GPU solutions are on the horizon. Its "Arctic Sound" and "Jupiter Sound" discrete GPUs were originally intended to spend their lives toiling away in data centers, crunching numbers in quiet obscurity. But Intel's graphics chief obviously has other plans outside the datacenter. Bonus: Apparently @Rajaontheedge is redefining Arctic Sound (first Intel dGPU), was originally targeted for video streaming apps in data center, but now… Read full this story

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