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Intel has confirmed that Arc desktop GPUs will be China-exclusive initially and only be available via OEMs. This is probably disappointing news for enthusiasts globally who were looking forward to it.

The full-fat 96 Execution Unit (EU) Iris Xe Max from Gunnir has been tested and it isn't much better than the 80EU part, despite possessing nearly a third more raw computing horsepower.

Intel has confirmed that its first-gen Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs are definitely going to launch this quarter (Q1). The company also unveiled much more details on its Arc roadmap and products.

More pictures, purportedly of engineering samples (ES) for the first-gen Intel Arc Alchemist GPU, have leaked, this time featuring a similar but darker shade of the previously leaked photos.

In the coming days at CES 2022, Acer could debut the first laptop in the world featuring Intel's brand new Arc Alchemist discrete graphics. Arc is Intel's discrete GPU brand like GeForce and Radeon.

Intel demoed some gameplay of its ARC Alchemist GPU yesterday at The Game Awards 2021 event. One of the images in the video may have unveiled some information regarding ARC, like temperature.

In 2025, Intel plans to launch its fourth-gen ARC discrete graphics cards dubbed "Druid" according to an Intel ARC official. This means a launch cadence period of just one year for Intel's ARC GPUs.

At its Architecture Day 2021 today, Intel has revealed more information on its upcoming discrete graphics cards. The company has detailed the architecture of first-gen Arc products called Alchemist.

To promote its newly-unveiled Arc branding for the upcoming discrete graphics cards, Intel is giving away, among other stuff, an Arc branded discrete GPUs to five lucky winners from across the world.

Intel has unveiled today its new "Arc" brand. Arc will be similar to GeForce and Radeon and will denote all of Intel's hardware and software that will be designed for its upcoming discrete graphics.

Alleged NUC 12 details have leaked and they suggest Intel could be having its own in-house discrete graphics in the next-gen NUC. The GPUs will apparently feature 8,12 and 16GB VRAM.

Intel appears to be making excellent progress on the clock speeds of its upcoming Xe HPG (DG2) discrete graphics. According to a leaked Geekbench 5 run, the GPU is now reaching 2.2GHz.

Intel's Iris Xe discrete desktop graphics card has finally started selling online. Like the company had announced earlier, the new GPU is available to purchase from an OEM, CyberPowerPC.

Alleged details regarding Intel's Arctic Sound GPUs have leaked today. Arctic Sound products will be using Intel's Xe HP microarchitecture and will be deployed as data center and server accelerators.

Intel's DG2 is reportedly heading to notebooks and laptops first, according to a report today. The launch time for the initial batch of DG2-based discrete graphics cards is allegedly in late Q4 2021.

An employee at Intel has shared a job invitation link which is hinting at the potential launch date for Intel's high-end Xe graphics codenamed DG2. Apparently, "DG2 is right around the corner".

Intel has released a new teaser video for its upcoming high-end Xe HPG graphics architecture. Outside of the music and effects, the teaser also has a couple of puzzles, one of which has been solved.

Intel's chief GPU lead, Raja Koduri, has tweeted a screenshot of the company's Xe HPG discrete graphics chip running an upcoming 3DMark Mesh Shader test. The GPU will be launching later this year.

Leaked press deck of Intel's highly anticipated Xe graphics architecture show an attractive looking piece of dev kit meant for ISVs. The slides also reiterate Intel's plans with the Xe architecture.