Monday, September 12th 2022
Intel's Raja Koduri Refutes Rumors About Company Cancelling Arc Graphics
Intel's accelerated computing group head Raja Koduri, who heads the team behind the Arc "Alchemist" graphics, on late-Sunday, refuted rumors about the company shutting down the Arc graphics product line. Responding to a question to that effect on Twitter, Koduri tweeted "we are shrugging about these rumors as well. They don't help the team working hard to bring these to market, they don't help the PC graphics community..one must wonder, who do they help?..we are still in first gen and yes we had more obstacles than planned to overcome, but we persisted."
Rumors about Intel dropping the axe on Arc have been around for some time now, after repeated delays in getting the products to market, limited regional launches; and gathered steam as Intel closed down the Optane Memory business last quarter. Last week, after Intel presented a less-than-perfect outlook for its processor business hinted that it could exit "other" unprofitable businesses.
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Raja Koduri (Twitter)
Rumors about Intel dropping the axe on Arc have been around for some time now, after repeated delays in getting the products to market, limited regional launches; and gathered steam as Intel closed down the Optane Memory business last quarter. Last week, after Intel presented a less-than-perfect outlook for its processor business hinted that it could exit "other" unprofitable businesses.
81 Comments on Intel's Raja Koduri Refutes Rumors About Company Cancelling Arc Graphics
There was a DG1 before ARC.
ARC is Intel's first full force go at a range of dedicated GPU's. And from what I have seen thus far, I think they are doing well and making solid progress. Their first set of cards is reasonably competitive and they seem to be going up from here. Not at all bad for a first real run at a market sector as tough as GPU's.
AMD and NVidia should be worried.