Intel talks about its graphics cards, they are confirmed for 2020

Intel has been talking about its cunning plan to enter the high-performance graphics card market, which will be its second attempt since the cancellation of its Larabee project. HotHardware spoke with Ari Rauch, vice president of the Core & Visual Computing Group at Intel, to discuss what makes this latest company effort different from previous attempts.

Intel graphics cards have nothing to do with Larabee

Rauch made it clear that this is not Larabee 2.0, in fact it has nothing to do with it. Intel wants a traditional GPU architecture design, along with some of the company's strategic IPs it can bring, to help differentiate its products. Rauch noted that Intel will bring discrete GPUs to the customer and data center segments with the goal of delivering the best quality and experiences across the board, including gaming, content creation and business. These products will be available for the first time sometime, starting in 2020.

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When asked about their current hiccups and delays in silicon manufacturing and how it might affect Intel's ability to run in this highly competitive space, Rauch noted that they feel very confident about their product roadmap in software, architecture and manufacturing. Based on some of the answers to the product positioning questions, it also appears that Intel is preparing to tackle all performance ranges as well, from entry-level graphics cards to mid-range and high-end.

For now, no specific details of these Intel graphics cards are known, we do not know if your heatsink will bet on a turbine model or one with fans, if it will be based on modular chips, on HBM2 / 3 memory or GDDR6… it seems that we will have to continue waiting to know this kind of details. What they do promise is great driver support, including Linux.

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