All I can hope right now is that Intel will develop GPUs to encourage competition and reduce the GPUs to competitive prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Arc
Likely they'll be subject to the same price gouging and limited supply as AMD and NVidia GPUs...
[1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/270196/20220106/intel-arc...
- Intel is not already experienced in designing high-end graphics cards, so there's less institutional knowledge in the company
- Intel iGPUs have a mediocre reputation
- Intel has a history of failed attempts to enter the GPU/accelerator space (e.g. i740 and Larabee)
- DG2 has been delayed from the timeline that was expected in the techspace when we first heard about it
- The person leading Intel Xe is Raja Koduri who led AMD graphics during AMD Vega (though it's unclear how responsible he is for its shortcomings) and arguably has a history of overpromising.
That said I'm pretty bullish on Intel GPUs because supply still hasn't caught up with demand, so as long as they are reasonably functional, I think they will succeed.
Raja was the technical leader of ATI in 2001+. His hands were involved in every single GPU from that time until Vega.
Intel Optane, Itanium, Xeon Phi, Cell-phone Atom (yes, this was a thing), Intel Edison, etc. etc.
Intel pretty much makes good Ethernet adapters, Wifi adapters, and CPUs these days. Everything else they've tried seems to die off a few years later.
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Its like seeing "Google" try to make a new free webservice. We all know Google has the expertise to make it work, but for some reason, it doesn't.
Similarly, Intel has a wide variety of experts in a number of fields related to chip-making, along with historically successful products and a few chips that are highly important in the field. But something is clearly "off" with Intel's current culture.
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Intel has some GPU-engineers working for them. The question is if the organization as a whole can actually release a product (step 1), and then support it for more than 5 years.
I think its a bit of the "curse of the successful company". No matter what product Intel makes, there's no way its going to make as much money as Intel's CPUs. So the business-minds / bean-counters kill the product.