Pretty much as expected, Intel is working on a dedicated GPU that Intel which is now confirmed to be released in 2020. Intel’s first real GPU likely will end up as graphics accelerator for gaming, machine learning, and AI.
The new has been posted by Raja Koduri who left the AMD Radeon team last year. In a tweet, Intel confirms that the GPU will be released in 2020, other than that Intel does not hand out details. In a recent analyst event last week, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich also mentioned they will have their first discrete graphics chips available in 2020.
It will be interesting to see how the GPUs will spin off, likely the first waves will be where money can be made, data-centers for AI, deep-learning, and computation. However, given the recent staff moved from AMD towards Intel, gaming graphics cards look to be a viable market. It’s still two years away though, and you can bet that AMD and NVIDIA are not sitting still. The GPUs to be released will very likely carry the code names Arctic Sound and Jupiter Sound. We hope for Intel that they will invest heavily in the software side of things as well — The hardware is just one part of the recipe.
