Rumor: Intel will announce more about its Arctic Sound GPU in December – update

Intel is rumored to hold a conference in December on the architecture for separate GPUs that the company is working on. The company has opened a GPU research center in Canada, according to DigiTimes, and plans to start a second R&D facility in India. Update: Intel denies.

During the conference, chip architect Raja Koduri, who leads the GPU project at Intel, will provide an update on the techniques the company uses and the prospects of the business, claims DigiTimes, which has good resources within the Taiwanese tech industry, but with rumors. also regularly sitting next to you.

Intel is working under the name Arctic Sound on a separate, high-end GPU, which should give the company a foothold in the market for graphics processing power. The GPU should be ready in 2020 and Intel has attracted many well-known GPU technicians for the development, including Koduri, who previously worked on Radeon GPUs at AMD.

Intel is the market leader with its GPU integrated into the processor, but the graphics chips are generally a lot less powerful than those of AMD and Nvidia. According to the latest market figures from Peddie Research, Intel saw its GPU shipments increase by 13.1 percent in the past quarter compared to the previous quarter, mainly due to increased shipments for laptops. As a result, Intel’s market share increased by 1.5 percent. Shipments of desktop graphics cards with discrete GPUs fell by 19.21 percent, mainly because fewer cards for mining cryptocurrencies were shipped.

Although GPUs for mining cryptocurrency have become less popular in the past year, Intel probably wants to serve the lucrative game market with its standalone GPUs and to use GPUs as accelerators for business applications. Here, Nvidia is taking market share from Intel with its Tesla cards, as companies increasingly use GPUs instead of Xeon processors for data center tasks, such as calculations for artificial intelligence.

Update 19:55: Koduric denies on Twitter that he will give an update at the conference.