Intel Unveils Powerful New Graphics Card for Vehicles
Intel has just announced a new graphics card designed specifically for automobiles. At their recent AI Cockpit Innovation Experience event, the company's vice president unveiled the Arc A760A, highlighting its impressive specs and capabilities.
Based on the ACM-G10 GPU, the Arc A760A boasts 448 vector engines, 28 Xe-cores, and 28 ray tracing cores. It packs 16GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit bus and a maximum clock speed of 1953 MHz. The card has a TDP of 225W and achieves an impressive AI performance of 229 TOPS.
“Intel’s strategy is to infuse AI capabilities into devices of all shapes and sizes, and we are excited to bring this expertise and our broad, open AI ecosystem to the automotive industry,”
said Jack Wist, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel Automotive.
The company emphasized the A760A’s AI prowess, stating that it can run AI assistants powered by large language models. Furthermore, Intel’s optimizations significantly enhance the performance of language models designed specifically for the automotive sector. Intel also highlighted its open-source, Linux-based car operating system and drivers that ensure optimal hardware performance.
The Arc A760A can handle up to four 4K monitors and decode HEVC, VP9, and AV1 codecs. It can also process video feeds from six cameras simultaneously. Support for OpenGL and Vulkan APIs is included, as well as Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology, which can boost virtual machine performance by up to 40%.
The Arc A760A is expected to be available to customers in the first quarter of 2025.
