Intel Responds To Question About Future Of Arc Graphics Following NVIDIA Deal

Earlier today, Intel and NVIDIA announced the two tech giants are planning to co-develop several generations of data center and PC products, with the latter also investing $5 billion into the former's common stock. Hours later, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and NVIDiA CEO Jensen Huang hosted a webcast to discuss the announcement followed by a Q&A session, but surprisingly, nobody thought to ask what implications the deal has on the future of Intel's Arc graphics. So, we reached out to Intel for clarification.

We asked Intel point-blank if it plans to continue developing Arc, both in discrete and integrated form, and specifically if Celestial is still on the roadmap. The last we heard, Intel's third-generation Xe3-based Celestial GPUs would soon hit the tape-out stage.

Intel's response? It's all in the interpretation.

"We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary ...