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Intel Meteor Lake might not see the light of day on desktops (not anytime soon, at least), but it seems that the mobile chips are going strong. According to inside sources, laptops equipped with Meteor Lake chips may not even need a discrete graphics card — the integrated GPU is going to be powerful enough to rival Nvidia’s GTX 1650. That’s not all, though. It appears that Intel might even be able to compete against Apple’s M2 chip, but in a different way. Moore's Law Is Dead / YouTube Today’s scoop comes from…

Intel has announced its new Intel Arc brand for discrete high-performance consumer GPUs, as well as companion software and services, aimed largely at gamers. The first models for both desktops and laptops will be launched in 2022. Moreover, the company has disclosed the first of its genre-themed codenames that refer to upcoming products. 'Alchemist', formerly known as DG2, will be based on the Xe HPG architecture, and will launch in early 2022. The series will progress alphabetically, with Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid…

As Intel gears up for the launch of its push into the discrete gaming GPU market, information about the first wave of products has started to come out. We already know that the company has created a new brand called Arc for these GPUs, and that at least four generations have been planned and mapped out already. Now expected in early 2022, the first-generation Intel Arc graphics cards, codenamed ‘Alchemist', will be based on the Xe graphics architecture – more specifically, the Xe HPG implementation, which was adapted…