Despite the failure (unfortunately, it can only be described as such) of the first generation of dedicated graphics cards from Intelthe company doesn’t seem to be giving up and has confirmed that its engineering teams are actively working on next-generation GPUs, the Battle Mage Bow Xe2 Yes Celeste x3and that they have more good news on the way.
Specifically, the company said it has “good news” regarding the next generation of dedicated graphics cards, the Arc Battlemage Xe2, and also that its engineering team is actively working on the upcoming Celestial Xe3. All this was in an interview given by Tom Petersen of Intel to PCWorld, who also confirmed that we will not have to wait long to have them on the market.
New Intel graphics cards are coming this year
Petersen also said that the next generation of Intel Arc Battlemage He also said that the first chips are already in the test lab and that, although he cannot give much more information at the moment, a launch was mentioned before the end of the year, probably (and this is our hypothesis) in the second half of the year.
It is also worth highlighting the fact that the Intel employee mentioned that the company’s hardware engineering team is already working on the third generation of graphics, the Arc Celestial Xe3 family, which is expected to arrive in 2025 in as iGPU of Panther Lake processors. initially, but later also as dedicated graphics cards intended to be sold as individual products for desktop computers.
AI remains in Intel’s crosshairs
In addition to what has already been mentioned, Petersen also noted that the company is actively working on the NPU architecture for its next processors, that is, for the famous “PCs with AI” that has been talked about so much. lately. So far there haven’t been many applications except for a few isolated examples such as PCs with facial and voice recognition, but Petersen says they can also be used a lot to improve performance in games, where AI can help create more realistic animations. . .
According to some media outlets such as WCCFTech, it appears that this could be an approach to Intel’s AI model similar to NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine), which takes advantage of AI to create more realistic interactions between humans and NPCs in games. Of course, we’ve known for a while that Intel has a strong presence in the AI world (and if not, look at the little war between Intel’s CEO and NVIDIA that we saw a few weeks ago), and they don’t. I don’t want to be left behind. .
Beyond all that, Petersen also discussed the benefits of continuing to use a chip-based design, such as cost or the possibility of having monolithic designs. Pure filler, really.
