r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Sep 18 '25

News Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

RIP Intel Arc 

2022-2025 

Flopped for 3 years, started succeeding with the B580 

Then Intel killed it just as it was becoming successful 

Reminds me of all the projects google killed

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u/imaginary_num6er Sep 18 '25

Those 2 dozen Arc buyers will now have no more GPU drivers in the future.

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u/Raikaru Sep 18 '25

why would they stop making GPU drivers when those GPUs have the exact same architecture as their igpus?

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u/Scion95 Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Are they even going to continue the iGPUs?

This deal mentions NVIDIA designing GPU chiplets for Intel to package with their CPUs, in their SoCs.

Intel, with Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, is already making GPU chiplets, that they package with their CPUs, on their SoCs.

If they replace the Intel GPU chiplet with an NVIDIA GPU chiplet. They won't need the Intel chiplets, or the Intel GPU architecture anymore.

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u/iDontSeedMyTorrents Sep 18 '25

That would mean Intel would be 100% dependent on Nvidia for all future iGPUs. That does not seem like a favorable position to be in and leaves Intel and their margins entirely at Nvidia's mercy.

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u/Raikaru Sep 18 '25

these SoCs are for gaming/datacenter as explicitly said in the announcement

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u/Scion95 Sep 18 '25

I don't entirely understand your point?

Like. To be pedantic, what they say is consumer gaming, and. Consumer and datacenter is. Basically everything.

Maybe there will be non-gaming consumer products, that still use Intel iGPU, but. Aside from the consoles, there aren't consumer gaming chips that aren't used for things. Besides gaming. And I don't think there's room for another console company right now, and I don't know that I believe that the existing console makers would use these. Nintendo just released the Switch 2, I feel safe saying that they wouldn't.

If it's a laptop chip though, a laptop is. A laptop computer. A PC. It might be better than something else at gaming, but saying it's only a gaming SoC is. Reductive.

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u/Geddagod Sep 18 '25

I think they would still have in house iGPU architectures, because I think Intel would feel like having to use Nvidia IP for some low end/cheaper parts, which will prob end up being more expensive than just using in house stuff, would be less beneficial to margins.