The launch of Intel Arc Alchemist has barely been officially announced but the GPU is already emerging as the protagonist of its own soap opera.
Intel has been tinkering with its own GPUs for several years. With these, the manufacturer wants to compete with Nvidia and AMD. Intel remained vague for a long time about the exact launch of its first graphics cards, but that changed at CES. The manufacturer announced that the first Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs would appear in the first quarter of this year. Acer simultaneously announced a new Swift X that would include an Intel Arc GPU. Acer, however, remained vague about availability.
Procrastination, not procrastination
Now VideoCardz discovered that Intel has suddenly removed all mention of Alchemist’s Q1 launch from its website. The manufacturer is now only talking about 2022. This is striking, since Intel did speak confidently about a Q1 launch during its presentations. The ambiguity also raises questions about the availability of Acer’s laptops.
Intel, meanwhile, did announce an event on May 10 called VISion. There is a good chance that the official launch of Arc will be pushed back to that event, which means we can look forward to Intel’s GPUs in Q2 at the earliest.