[Hardware] Intel podría adelantar a AMD y NVIDIA con sus nuevas GPU gaming

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That Intel is going to use factories outside of its own is something that should not surprise us, especially since it is a possibility due to the problems that Intel has had with its 10nm node. The latest rumor? The Intel Xe DG2 will be manufactured in TSMC, something that certain falsehoods already said but much more reliable sources have appeared giving the same information.

If there is something that we find missing in the presentation of Intel in this CES 2021 that is being celebrated is the presentation of its second generation Intel Xe, known as DG2, of which the Xe-HP but especially the Xe-HPG are the most anticipated, the last being Intel's bet for the most enthusiastic gaming market with the aim of planting NVIDIA and AMD.

Intel will use TSMC to manufacture the Intel Xe DG2
Intel Xe Render

According to Reuters, an Intel chip called "DG2" will be manufactured under an advanced version of TSMC's 7nm node. Although this information is vague, we know that DG2 refers to the second generation of the Intel Xe and the version of the 7 nm node of TSMC could refer to the 6 nm node, which will be used massively by its rival AMD in the next months.

Sources speak of a GPU for a graphics card that will be between $ 400 and $ 600, so everything indicates that it could be the Intel Xe-HPG based on a monolithic chip with a configuration of 512 EUs that has long been rumored as Intel's answer to AMD and NVIDIA in the gaming enthusiast graphics market.

At the moment and according to Reuters, both Intel and TSMC have declined to respond.

Production problems with Intel's 10nm?
Intel wafer

With the already announced launch of Alder Lake in the second half of this year, both in laptops and desktops, in combination with the announced production increase at Intel, what comes to mind is the following question: Does Intel have problems? to build your gaming GPU in your factories?

The idea of using third-party factories by Intel is something that a few months ago sounded far-fetched, but we have to bear in mind that during the next few months it is very possible that Intel factories will be overloaded with their CPUs, which they will use in all the segments its 10 nm node.

Intel's strategy can be as easy as leaving AMD a smaller share of production at TSMC, as the number of wafers that can be manufactured under a particular node is limited and companies like Intel, NVIDIA and AMD are scrambling to get a place on the production line of the powerful Taiwan Processor Foundry.

The absence of Intel Xe DG2 at CES 2021
Intel CES 2021

Many of us expected to see the second generation of Intel GPUs, DG2, during this CES and we have been wanting to know more, but has Intel said anything else? In the words of Bob Swan in an interview with PC World we still do not have a specific date:

The idea is to start with the integrated graphics and improve it, but to do it in a way that we can migrate to dedicated (graphics) more easily. They are based on the same design, during the last year you already saw the progress we made in integrated graphics and then we released DG1. Currently I do not know if we have given a date for DG2 or when we will launch it for data centers.

Intel has not yet given a date for both the Intel Xe-HP and the Xe-HPG. In the case of the Xe-HP it is understood to be a consumer electronics fair but not with the Xe-HPG. If we consider that Intel has made a preview of its Alder Lake for the second half of 2021 without mentioning the Intel Xe-HPG this makes us think that Intel's dedicated GPUs could be a little further than expected.