Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand Intel Arc

Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc

The new graphics brand will cover hardware, software and services. The first silicon will appear in

products in the first quarter of 2022, in both mobile and desktop form factors.

What’s New: Intel today revealed the brand for its upcoming consumer high-performance graphics

. The Arc brand will cover hardware, software and services, and will span multiple

hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named

Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). Intel also revealed the code names of future generations under the

Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid.

“Today marks a key moment in the graphics journey we started just a few years ago. The launch of the

Intel Arc brand and the reveal of future hardware generations signifies Intel’s deep and continued

commitment to gamers and creators everywhere. We have teams doing incredible work to ensure we

deliver first-class and frictionless experiences when these products are available early next year.”

–Roger Chandler, Intel vice president and general manager of Client Graphics Products and Solutions

Why It Matters: Intel Xe is a scalable graphics and compute architecture designed to deliver exceptional

performance and functionality spanning integrated to discrete and data centers to supercomputers.

Upcoming Intel Arc Graphics products are based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, a convergence of

Intel’s Xe LP, HP and HPC microarchitectures, that will deliver scalability and compute efficiency with

advanced graphics features. The first generation of Intel Arc products, code-named Alchemist, will

feature hardware-based ray tracing and artificial intelligence-driven super sampling, and offer full

support for DirectX 12 Ultimate.

Intel’s long-term vision is to bring frictionless gaming and content creation experiences to

gamers and creators worldwide, giving them innovation and choice in hardware coupled with open and

accessible software tools.

More Context: Alchemist products will arrive in the first quarter of 2022. Please visit Intel.com/Arc for

more details, with more specifics arriving later in 2021.

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