Intel unveils new gaming GPU brand ‘Arc’

New Delhi : Chip maker Intel on Monday unveiled a new brand for its upcoming consumer high-performance graphics products, and the first silicon will appear in products in the first quarter of 2022, in both mobile and desktop form factors.
Called Intel Arc, the brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2).
Intel also revealed the code names of future generations under the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid.
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Intel Xe is a scalable graphics and compute architecture designed to deliver exceptional performance and functionality spanning integrated to discrete and data centres to supercomputers, said the company “We have teams doing incredible work to ensure we deliver first-class and frictionless experiences when these products are available early next year,” Chandler added.