In March, Intel released its first discrete GPU, the Intel Arc 3 series A, intended for ultra -portable laptops. Although still a corn age, Intel claims to be ready to compete with older players such as Nvidia and AMD.
Intel's gait in the discrete GPU market is greatly aided by their foundation as an integrated GPU manufacturer such as Intel Xe.
This is our first year entering this market, and we have a strong roadmap for the next three generations of discrete GPUs and we hope to be very competitive going forward with Nvidia and AMD.
Intel Arc 3 itself is the lowest discrete GPU variant offered by Intel. This graphics card will certainly not be a direct competitor to the RTX 3000 series, which is Nvidia's flagship graphics card.
Intel has actually prepared Arc 5 and Arc 7 variants that are dedicated to gaming laptops and will launch in the summer of this year. But Danielson admits that this gaming-specific GPU may not have the same performance as the high-end GPUs on the market.
Then next year we will see more versions of Arc graphics cards that will be more competitive in that segment.
Speaking of competition, Intel also has a new competitor in the processor market, namely Apple. Formerly one of Intel's largest partners, Apple now has its own processor for Mac devices, the M1 line.
Danielson welcomed the competition from Apple because he said the competition would help Intel to develop better products to meet the needs of its users. He also believes that the 12th generation Intel Core processor can beat Apple Silicon.
If you look at the benchmark chart, we outperform the M1 Max and we outperform the latest processors offered by other competitors.
And we have the fastest mobile processor in the world, with 12900K. So the competition is good for everyone. I think it makes us work harder.