It’s no secret that Nvidia continues to dominate the discrete graphics card market, with AMD trailing behind and Intel only just becoming visible in global GPU market share stats towards the end of last year. At the same time, none of these brands are really rushing to release new desktop GPUs, outside of wider availability for the RX 9070 GRE at Computex this week.

There’s still no official word on the much-anticipated Intel Arc B770, the expected flagship of the Battlemage series, ahead of the current Intel Arc B570 and Intel Arc B580 options, and a true successor to the Arc A770 from Intel’s Alchemist series. Either way, an Intel executive says these gaming GPUs are still “super important” – and presumably remain in the company’s roadmap.

Arc gaming GPUs should still play a part in Intel’s plans

According to Dutch publication Tweakers, which attended an Intel Q&A session at Computex, Intel suggested that its Arc desktop gaming GPUs aren’t going away. In response to a question regarding the future of these graphics cards, Intel’s Alex Katouzian suggests they are still part of the roadmap, adding that “At the moment, the traction of our GPU cores is really very good”.

“GPUs are a super important part of our PC product range. If you look at gaming, both mobile and on PC, huge revenues are generated there. We want to ensure that we play a significant role in that.”

Alex Katouzian, Executive VP and GM of Client Computing and Physical AI at Intel – via tweakers.net [translated]

Katouzian says, “Gamers and game engine developers are all working with us,” going on to add, “You have seen the examples we showed on stage today: that is just the beginning. I think we are simply going to continue on this path.” He is referring to the new Intel Arc G-Series chips for handhelds, powering devices like the Acer Predator Atlas 8 and MSI Claw 8 EX AI+.

Outside of the new handheld-focused graphics, Intel hasn’t given us any more Arc gaming hardware to sink our teeth into at Computex. This is the second time the company has had to state it won’t stop making GPUs, but it does little to tell us whether Team Blue is actually working on a card like the B770, or whether it has been scrapped altogether. Most recently, we got the Intel Arc Pro B70, but this is a workstation and AI card, rather than something for gamers to get excited about.

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