Intel Commits To Future GPU Releases With Latest Hire, But What About Gaming?

Rumors of the demise of Intel's GPU business have been greatly exaggerated. Even before the launch of the first Alchemist-based Intel Arc GPUs, naysayers were insisting that Intel would kill the brand, kill the project, or cut the whole team. Intel has done some restructuring, to be sure, but the company's GPUs are not going anywhere. And that's clearer than ever now, thanks to recent comments from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Speaking at the Second Annual AI Summit, Tan made an unambiguous commitment to future GPU products, stating "yes" to the question "does Intel build GPUs in the future?" Now, because this was the AI Summit and the market is what it is right now, that sounds a lot like "yes, we will have another go at building massive parallel processors for AI compute," but notably, he went on to say:

And I just hired the Chief ...