Intel Reaffirms Arc GPUs, Details Panther Lake and Nova Lake Memory Design
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger confirms commitment to Arc GPUs and reveals that Panther Lake and Nova Lake CPUs will not use on-package memory .
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, during the Q3 2024 earnings call, provided updates on the company's future CPU and GPU roadmap. He reaffirmed Intel's commitment to Arc GPUs and revealed that Panther Lake and Nova Lake CPUs will not follow Lunar Lake's on-package memory design. Memory Design Shift Gelsinger explained that while Lunar Lake's on-package LPDDR5X memory worked for that specific product, it's not a sustainable strategy for high-volume products like mainstream PCs. Panther Lake, Nova Lake, and their successors will revert to a more traditional design with off-package memory. This will allow for greater flexibility and scalability in memory configurations. "That's at a volume product and a volume industry like the PC industry, you don't want to have volume memory going through that channel...So it really is, for us, a one-off with Lunar Lake." - Pat Gelsinger Focus on Integrated Graphics Gelsinger also indicated a shift towards integrated graphics, …