Intel Plans to Ship 4 Million GPUs to Gamers in 2022

Intel plans to ship no less than 4 million discrete GPUs in 2022, the company stated in its Investor Meeting 2022 presentation. The Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group (AXG), headed by Raja Koduri, announced this bold target. The company announced a Q1-2022 debut of its ambitious new Arc “Alchemist” discrete GPU for notebooks (before April). This is to be followed by a desktop debut in Q2-2022 (before July), before a professional-visualization (workstation-class) debut in Q3 (before October). All put together, the company plans to ship over 4 million discrete GPUs over the year.

Intel announced over 50 design wins for OEMs and “AICs.” This is big, as it denotes that Arc “Alchemist” graphics cards won’t just be sold in the OEM/SI channel, but also the DIY retail channel. Among the familiar brands in the DIY space from the Intel slide are ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE. The company is working with over 100 software-ecosystem partners or ISVs, to optimize their current and upcoming applications and games, for the Xe HPG graphics architecture. This includes support for the XeSS performance enhancement (analogous to AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS), and DeepLink, a graphics processing resource virtualization tech. Intel plans to launch a new generation of Arc almost every year for the next 3 years, starting with “Alchemist” in 2022, “Battlemage” somewhere around 2023-2024, and “Celestial” after 2024.