Intel chose TSMC as the manufacturer of its Arc GPUs due to lack of capacity in its Intel 7 process

A few weeks ago Intel officially announced its line of dedicated Arc graphics cards, and one of the most striking aspects was that it will not be manufactured in its own foundry under its Intel 7 process, but will be manufactured by TSMC under the company’s 6nm process. Taiwanese.

In recent statements to Ascii.jp, company executives, including Raja Koduri, explained that the decision was due to the fact that Intel does not have enough capacity to manufacture CPUs + GPUs under its cutting-edge process and that is why they decided to design it directly to be manufactured by TSMC, who will have the capacity enough to satisfy the volume of sales that the blue company plans to have, and thus free its own foundries for Alder Lake CPUs, Sapphire Rapids, and other products manufactured under its 10nm process recently renamed to Intel 7.

There will be custom models from different partners

Intel also confirmed that it has already sent reference models of its various Xe graphics to its partners to start designing their own custom models well in advance for their launch in early 2022, so we may see custom variants from companies like Asus, Gigabyte. , and MSI, to choose the variant that we like the most. In addition, the company is evaluating launching reference models similar to what Nvidia has done with its Founders Edition and AMD with its reference graphics, although they still do not have a final decision in this regard.

At the moment everything indicates that Intel is well on track for the launch of its new dedicated Arc graphics, and that they will be an interesting competition for AMD and Nvidia as they have the performance of an RTX 3070, support for DirectX 12 Ultimate, and their own technology. rescaled by artificial intelligence XeSS, although third-party tests will have the final word once they are on the market, so we will have to wait a few more months to really know what these new graphics cards are capable of. We will keep you updated on all the news, so stay tuned to HD Tecnología.

What do you think about these new Intel Arc GPUs? Do you think they will get to compete against the current lines of AMD and Nvidia?