Calling the discrete graphics solutions of the Xe family the first for Intel is not entirely correct, since the company has already made attempts to gain a foothold in the discrete graphics market. In the nineties of the last century, it produced gaming video cards with varying success, and at the beginning of this century it tried to return to this market segment, but eventually turned the “Larrabee project” into Xeon Phi computing accelerators, which until recently were released as expansion cards, very reminiscent of video cards in their layout.
According to the resource , which decided to release profile news in the free section in order to maintain its own rating, the first discrete graphics solutions of the Intel Xe family will be presented by the middle of next year, they will be produced using 10-nm technology. There is no news in the last part of the statement, but the timing of the appearance of the corresponding products is somewhat surprising. Chris Hook, head of marketing for Intel graphics solutions, who, following the example of Raja Koduri, moved from AMD to Intel at the end of March from Twitter that the first discrete graphics solutions of the Xe family will go on sale by the end of 2020. Information DigiTimes this point of view, in essence, does not contradict. Intel may introduce new graphics processors in the middle of the year, but they may not appear in commercial graphics cards until the end of the year. A few months difference between the two stages of the announcement for such a "triumphant return" is not as much as it seems at first glance.
Against the backdrop of a recent DigiTimes publication, a photograph with the license plate “THINKXE”, which the head of the graphics division of Intel Raja Koduri on Twitter in early October. Chris Hook, who still adheres to the idea of a later appearance of Intel's discrete graphics solutions on sale, urged not to look for mystical coincidences in the terms of registration of an electric vehicle that owns a license plate. According to him, Raja Koduri just registered his electric car in June a few years ago, and now regularly renews the registration in the same month, periodically changing the registration number of the vehicle itself.
Intel executives in past presentations have been much more willing to talk about the company's plans for a discrete 7nm GPU that will debut in 2021. It is destined to become the first mass-produced Intel product, manufactured using 7nm technology. Moreover, this GPU will use Foveros 3D spatial layout. It is understood that several separate crystals will be located on one substrate. Only then 7-nm technology will be used for the production of central processors, the second in line is the processor for the server segment. However, the first 7nm GPU from Intel will also be used in server systems to speed up calculations, but 10nm predecessors have every chance of getting into gaming configurations.
Source: 3dnews.ru