extreme tech Intel’s New Arc-Branded GPUs Will Battle Nvidia, AMD in Q1 2022

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Intel has announced the new brand name for its consumer GPU products as well as code names for future GPU microarchitectures. The Xe microarchitecture has a new codename: Alchemist. Following Alchemist, we’ll see the launch of Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid.

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Alchemist, the first generation of Intel Arc products, will feature hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling.

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I feel like a smart move would be to invent in AMD, Intel, and Nvidia right now since they will basically be the main companies driving mainstream AI hardware over the next decade, or so it seems. They all have a lot to gain from designing hardware that caters to AI going forward.