In Intel’s own public database, called Intel Ark, a mysterious product named DG2MB, but it does not have a clear definition of what type of product it is. Everything indicates, however, that it could be a test motherboard of the brand, even if the strange thing about it is that it apparently comes with a card Intel DG2-512 dedicated graphicswhich only creates more uncertainty.
The source of this news is Igor Wallossek (linked at the end of the article), and he directly assumes that we are dealing with a motherboard test to be used as a reference with Intel dedicated graphics cards, although if so, it would be rather strange for Intel to add it to its Ark database.
Intel DG2MB, is it a motherboard? A graph?
In fact, the Intel Ark platform has two faces: the public part and to which everyone has unlimited access, where one can find all its products launched on the market, which is the well-known part. However, it also has a hidden part, which only “insiders” have access to under a confidentiality agreement and this is where Intel lists all of its products even if they don’t see the light on the market later, and it is precisely in this section where this mysterious Intel DG2MB appeared.
There are many curiosities in these few data, as well as some inconsistencies; for example, a 200 watt TDP as noted, that seems like a lot for a CPU, but that 4GHz speed seems like a lot for a GPU. On the contrary, 16 MB of cache is also specified, which most likely refers to the GPU and not the CPU since it seems to correspond to L2 memory.
Putting some emphasis on those 200W of TDP, and extrapolating to what we know about GPUs Intel DG2-512, many of which are known to go beyond this TDP, it seems that this platform would use a variant of this chip. According to the source, it does and claims that the GPU listed is a BGA2660 variant and uses the same package size with the DG2-512 SOC1 GPU. These are, of course, unconfirmed speculations, although admittedly they make a lot of sense.
Either way, it’s also possible that we’re just looking for a soldered GPU motherboard designed for early laptops with Alchemist GPUs (and looking at the TDP we’d have a high-end product), or even early laptops Brand OEM desktop with its own GPU. Chances are that’s it because Intel is set to release its first GPU Alchemist for laptops at the end of this month, although it is true that contrary to what they say in the source, these would be based on DG2-128 SOC2 chips.
High-end configurations should be announced soon with a launch planned for this second quarter of the year, where we will also almost certainly see variants for desktop computers, so it is very likely that in the coming weeks we will get out of doubt and find out what this Intel DG2MB product really is.
