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.
I’m hopeful still for their Arc lineup of integrated and discrete graphics. The integrated ones seem to be competitive with AMD. Just need the Linux driver’s to keep improving. It’s great to have Intel and AMD improving with open source drivers for Linux
