Prior leaks have provided a fairly clear picture of Intel’s next CPU lineup, codenamed Nova Lake. However, a new report outlines successors that are tentatively scheduled to arrive over the next two years. The roadmap includes a previously rumored end to the company’s hybrid-core setup, as well as APUs that incorporate Nvidia RTX GPU tiles.
I am not too surprised that they are giving up on the P/E core model. AMD’s approach seems much more sane where the “efficiency” cores still have full functionality of the full fat cores.
More intense competition for AMD’s X3D line is also a good thing. AMD needs more pressure for price competition and more consumer friendly product management policies.
I am not really all too happy about the switch to Nvidia for graphical acceleration, this sounds like a state sanctioned initiative and it will only serve to reduce the minimal competition we have in the GPU market (Chinese GPUs aren’t really viable where I live; I am talking about purely pragmatic reasons, ignoring broader considerations with using Chinese GPUs in this particular case).
I mean, there was this one time where Intel packaged an AMD GPU side by side with their CPU. I don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing to let your internal solutions compete with others’, as long as this doesn’t result in Intel canning Arc
I believe consumer discrete graphics have already been hit, but that might more due to pro AI demand.
Leaks suggest it will be a while before Nvidia will be used for graphics, hopefully Arc not only survives, but also improves till then.