However, Raja Koduri the executive vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group at Intel Corporation, vehemently denied these rumors via his Twitter account.
Intel is moving forward as planned
An anonymous source at Intel confirmed to me that these rumors were false and that the “roadmap” is unchanged for Arc." Arc GPUs are moving forward as planned. Just two days ago, on September 10, Koduri tweeted a pre-launch photo of an Intel Arc GPU being put through its paces at a lab in Toronto, Canada. Leaker Moore’s Law is Dead tweeted, “Intel is Effectively Killing off ARC Discrete. Not kidding, it’s done.” The tweet and associated YouTube video, which cited a number of alleged quotes from Intel insiders on the current state and plans for Arc, got this runaway rumor train rolling. In the end, rumors are sometimes nothing more than that, and sometimes they’re an incorrect interpretation of information received or overheard somewhere. While anything is possible in the future, both official and unofficial statements confirming that Intel is moving forward with its discrete Arc GPU launch is convincing. We can’t wait to see how upcoming generations of Arc handle everything our lab throws at it. Whatever the results are, a little more competition in the GPU game is good for consumers and may even push AMD and Nvidia to create more innovative GPU solutions. Via Tweak Town