Comment on Intel’s long-awaited Arc GPUs begin shipping today, starting in laptops

Enlarge / Intel's Arc GPUs will begin shipping in laptops soon. (credit: Intel) Maybe you've heard about it: After years of rumors and occasional false starts, Intel is leveraging its experience building integrated GPUs to enter the dedicated graphics business. The company's Arc GPUs will be trickling out throughout 2022, and Intel's stated goal is to shake up a market that has been dominated by Nvidia's products (and AMD's, but let's be honest, mainly Nvidia's) for years now. That process formally begins Wednesday with the launch of the first Arc GPUs for laptops. These Arc mobile GPUs first made an appearance in January when they were obliquely mentioned (with no model numbers, specs, or other technical information) in some of the laptop makers' product announcements.