It’s been just over a year since Intel last delivered a wholesale update on its DCAI product roadmaps, which were last refreshed at their 2022 investors meeting.

It hasn’t all been good news in the past few months for Intel’s beleaguered data center group, but it’s not all bad news, either. On the other hand, the GPU side of the business has hit a rough spot, with the unexpected cancelation of Rialto Bridge – what would have been Intel’s next Data Center GPU Max product. After repeated delays, Intel is finally shipping their Sapphire Rapids CPUs in high volumes this quarter as part of the 4 th Generation Xeon Scalable lineup, all the while its successors are coming up very quickly. Regardless, these deficits were still unacceptable, and Intel needed to make up ground in a hurry, and today the company hopes to reclaim some of it.Coming to the end of the first quarter of 2023, Intel’s Data Center and AI group is finding itself at an interesting inflection point – for reasons both good and bad. Weaker DX9 performance, for example, did not sting so hard because we were told up front it would be that way. In addition, before launch, the company had led an impressively transparent campaign, primarily spearheaded by Tom “TAP” Petersen and Ryan Shrout, where the status and positioning of the cards was candidly disclosed. This was particularly evident when playing older DirectX 9 based titles, and that’s a big deal for PC gamers with extensive legacy game libraries. In certain game engines and APIs, these cards could shine and punch well above their weight, however a few software glitches and driver bugs highlighted that Intel still had some work to do. After a few delays, the Intel Graphics team successfully delivered its high-end Arc A770 and A750 graphics cards in October of last year.Īs much as the enthusiasts in us pined for a third major player in the gaming GPU market, the reality of GPU business is that it's a really tough gig. Intel Arc Alchemist launch buildup generated more buzz than most other product releases in recent memory, as the third entrant gamers hoped would break-up the graphics card duopoly.

The cards have faced an uphill battle from fierce GPU competition, but with several major driver and software updates released, Intel says it is time to check back in. Intel’s Arc A770 and A750 GPUs have been on the market now for over three months.

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