Intel now ready to reveal Vehicle HPG, the architecture with which I will try compete with Nvidia and AMD in the market of gaming. A short 30-second video released on social media, a so-called “teaser trailer”, shows us that Xe HPG can be defined as a version of Xe LP (at the base of Xe Max, but not only) on steroids. In the video we see an Xe LP GPU hit by a beam of energy that transforms it into a larger graphics chip that goes by the name of Xe HPG.
Already last year Intel, announcing the addition of Xe HPG to the array of architectures in development, said that the project would represent the union of some features of Xe LP, HP and HPC. More precisely, he said that the gaming architecture would take “graphics efficiency from Xe LP, scalability from Xe HP and compute efficiency from Xe HPC”, without missing the ability to handle ray tracing in hardware and compatibility. with GDDR6 memory.
Returning to the video, the always very attentive eyes of the fans for the details have I saw three details of the short clip: the first that the Xe HPG chip is represented with five layers of blocks, the second – much more interesting – revolves around a “mysterious binary code“placed on the vertical right side of the GPU. Finally, the third, refers to the geographic coordinates – 79.0731W and 43.0823N – leading to a point west of Goat Island, near Niagara Falls (hence it is assumed that the code name of the GPU may be Niagara Falls or Goat Island).
While the graphical representation does not seem to mean anything specific, other than the presence of many EU units (there are rumors of configurations up to 512 EU, so the five layers could indicate that, but only a hypothesis), the binary code has a meaning.
00100011
10100000
11101101
11010000
An enthusiast (duckofdeath, Wccftech reader) has decoded the first line of that code, obtaining an IP address – 35.160.237.208 – which takes you to the page xehpg.intel.com where you make an appointment at March 26 at 9 AM PST (17:00 in Italy) for a “Scavenger Hunt”, ie a treasure hunt. The site asks to come back and enter a secret code, so we will know more soon.
It should be noted that on March 26, only three days after the event in which Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will update fans, press and investors on the plans for the future of the company. Perhaps on that occasion we will also talk about GPUs and this “treasure hunt” will come alive. In any case, Intel seems ever closer to breaking into the gaming video card market (hypothesis: debut in August-September?) And we do not hide the curiosity of seeing a third wheel in the two-way fight between AMD and Nvidia: more choice is ‘, better .