Surprise! We woke up this morning to a blockbuster mashup between Intel and Nvidia . Team Green invested a cool $5 billion into Intel, and in exchange, the two companies will be co-creating consumer and data center x86 processors interwoven with Nvidia’s RTX graphics. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!

It’s simultaneously a shocking shakeup of the PC chip triumvirate (AMD must be fuming), a much-needed lifeline for struggling Intel, and a recipe for a potentially exciting future – the world’s foremost graphics pioneer joining forces with the company formerly known as Chipzilla. Imagine the possibilities!

But I also have to ask myself at the same time: What does this mean for the future of Arc, Intel’s own in-house graphics project?

Intel Arc’s short history

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