Most of the news sites these days, , wrote that at the Intel Developer Conference 2019 event in Tokyo, Intel representatives promised support for hardware ray tracing in the projected Xe discrete accelerator. But this turned out not to be true. As Intel later commented on the situation, all such statements are based on erroneous machine translation of materials from Japanese sources.
An Intel representative contacted PCWorld yesterday and told them in a lengthy comment that no hardware ray tracing support was announced for the Intel Xe graphics accelerator at the Tokyo event. And in the speech, in which the media saw such promises, in reality, nothing was said about ray tracing at all.
The misunderstanding arose due to the fact that the reviewers began to try to translate a Japanese news item from the site MyNavi.jp, which talked about the graphics presentation of Intel. As a result of machine translation, the site's assumptions about the graphics capabilities of the Tekken 7 fighting game were somehow transformed into the promise of ray tracing in future Intel accelerators. But as an Intel representative later commented, this is all a huge misunderstanding. The said presentation did not mention ray tracing and did not refer to either the Intel Xe discrete graphics architecture or the integrated Gen12 accelerator from future Tiger Lake processors at all. Moreover, statements about the target performance of Intel Xe graphics (60 fps in Full HD resolution) are also a translation error.
However, all this does not mean at all that Intel categorically denies the intention to implement hardware support for ray tracing in its graphics. The company simply denies the fact that it officially promised it, but perhaps the time has not come for such statements. In other words, Intel wants to convey to the public that it is too early to talk about any specific properties of the company's promising discrete GPU. And what it will be, we will find out a little later.
By the way, such an incident with an incorrect translation of statements about Intel Xe is not the first such case. A couple of months earlier, due to an erroneous translation of an interview by Raja Koduri with the Russian-language PRO Hi-Tech channel, the myth was born that Intel Xe video cards would cost around $200, which then Intel representatives also had to .
Source: 3dnews.ru