Intel reaffirms its commitment to discrete graphics at Intel Vision 2025
Intel is focusing on its core products, and discrete GPUs appear to be among them
While Intel didn’t discuss discrete graphics in detail at the event, they were shown amongst the company’s primary client products at Intel Vision 2025. While Intel plans to sell off non-core parts of its business to focus on its fundamentals, it looks like discrete graphics will remain a core part of Intel.
Intel’s new CEO is making huge changes to the company, but those changes don’t appear to include a move away from discrete GPUs. This means that we can expect to see next-generation discrete GPUs from Intel at some point in the future.
At CES 2025, then Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus stated that Intel is ” very committed to the discrete graphics market and plan future investments.” These plans appear unchanged.
This commitment means we can expect Intel to continue producing new ARC series discrete GPUs and improving its ARC graphics drivers and software. Recently, Intel released XeSS 2 technology, an update to its game upscaling technology that adds Frame Generation and low-latency technology to its GPU software suite. This aligns Intel XeSS with AMD’s FSR and Nvidia’s DLSS technologies, at least in terms of their core feature sets.
Why is discrete graphics so important to Intel?
Simply put, Intel can’t abandon graphics entirely. Even without dedicated graphics solutions, Intel needs mobile graphics solutions for its processor. Furthermore, many AI workloads rely on GPU performance, and AI is critical to Intel’s future roadmap. Intel needs to continue investing in GPU architectures for its integrated graphics solutions. Those GPUs need strong drivers and a solid graphics architecture.
Intel needs to invest in GPUs regardless of its position in the discrete GPU market. Intel’s efforts in building discrete GPUs have resulted in the creation of Intel’s best integrated GPUs to date. If Intel doesn’t continue these efforts, its integrated GPU offerings will fall behind those of its competitors, placing it at a disadvantage. Intel can’t be a GPU-less company, and investment in dedicated GPUs will help to ensure that their lower-end graphics solutions continue to improve.
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