Recently, most news websites, , reported that at the Intel Developer Conference 2019 held in Tokyo, Intel representatives promised support for hardware ray tracing in the upcoming discrete accelerator Xe. However, this turned out to be false. As later commented by Intel, all such statements are based on erroneous machine translations of materials from Japanese sources.
An Intel representative contacted PCWorld yesterday and told them in a detailed comment that no statements about hardware ray tracing support in the Intel Xe graphics accelerator were made at the Tokyo event. Moreover, in the presentation where the media thought such promises were made, there was actually no mention of ray tracing at all.
The misunderstanding arose because reviewers attempted to translate a Japanese news note from MyNavi.jp, which discussed Intel's graphic presentation. As a result of machine translation, the site's speculations about the graphic capabilities of the fighting game Tekken 7 somehow transformed into a promise of ray tracing in future Intel accelerators. However, as later commented by the Intel representative, this is all a grand misunderstanding. The mentioned presentation did not mention ray tracing and was not related to either the architecture of the Intel Xe discrete graphics or the Gen12 integrated accelerator from the upcoming Tiger Lake processors. Furthermore, statements regarding the expected performance of Intel Xe graphics (60 fps at Full HD resolution) are also a translation error.
However, this does not mean that Intel categorically denies the intention to implement hardware ray tracing support in its graphics. The company simply denies that it officially promised it, but it is possible that the time for such statements has not yet come. In other words, Intel wants to convey to the public that it is still too early to talk about any specific features of the company's future discrete GPU. We will find out what it will be like a bit later.
By the way, this isn't the first incident of incorrect translation regarding Intel Xe. A few months earlier, a mistaken translation of Raja Koduri's interview for the Russian-speaking channel PRO Hi-Tech gave rise to the myth that Intel Xe graphics cards would be priced around $200, which Intel representatives also had to refute. .
Source: 3dnews.ru
