"Promises will be kept!" This should be the inner monologue of Intel executives when they announced: March 30, the official release of the first ARC Alchemist for laptops. After all, the release date was finalized on the penultimate day of the first quarter of 2022, and it is not a breach of trust to the public. In addition, as for the desktop/workstation derivatives based on the Xe-HPG graphics architecture, they are scheduled for the 2/3rd quarter of 2022.
Intel wrote in a related article on its official website: "We are pleased to start launching the Intel ARC Alchemist mobile GPU series on March 30, and showcase key technologies such as Intel Deep Link and XeSS.
As for the core architecture, specifications and functions of the ARC Alchemist lineup, I believe that almost all of them have been exposed by different media before. Two DG2 GPU SKUs are mainly covered: one of which is in the DG2-512 specification and will be used in the ARC A700 / A500 series. The other adopts the DG2-128 specification and will be used in the ARC 300 series graphics solutions.
The Intel ARC A370M gaming GPU is scheduled to arrive with high-end Alder Lake laptops and will land on PC platforms later this quarter, including arc 380 desktop monostemperia, as well as A370M and A350M mobile monos. All three GPUs feature the SoC 2"DG2-128" specification, TSMC's 6nm process, up to eight Xe cores / 128 execution units, 1024 ACUs, and 128-bit @ 14 Gbps video memory.
At a time when the RTX 3050 unique notebook is at a price of 7,000 yuan, the DG2 series products that are uniquely launched as mobile GPUs are still attractive. And as TSMC, which continues to have tight production capacity, even the 6nm process production line that was not optimistic before must be grabbed. Therefore, the AMD RX 6800M series mobile graphics card that also uses the 6nm process and the AMD Ryzen™ 9 6980HX/6900HX and Ryzen 7 6800H mobile processor capacity are to be swallowed up by Intel, depending on AMD news.