TRADE CHAT
The danger of dabbling in Alchemy…
CAN INTEL FINALLY DO IT and produce a competitive graphics card? The answer should already be in hand. But the release of higher-performing versions of Intel’s Arc graphics cards is likely to be delayed. For how long Alchemist could be held back isn’t clear, but from a company with a dismal record for delivering dedicated graphics products, it hardly bodes well.
Jeremy Laird
Intel’s Larrabee never made it to market as a graphics card.
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We’ve been here before, of course. The most recent Intel graphics debacle was the Larrabee GPU. Intel popped a cap in that project back in 2009. At the time, Intel said it wasn’t dead, merely that the first chip in the new family of Larrabee graphics architectures had fallen behind sufficiently for it to no longer be viable as a retail product.