Intel Alchemist GPUs are being built by a competitor because Intel doesn’t have room

Intel’s Senior VP and GM of Graphics, Raja Koduri, has admitted why the company turned to TSMC to produce its first Alchemist GPUs instead of using its own ‘7’ production node. When weighing up the cost, performance, and capacity of available nodes, it was decided that “(Intel’s) advanced process did not have sufficient capacity yet.”

This new quote came in an interview with Japanse Site ASCII, which also included a few other choice insights into where Intel is at with its hotly-anticipated graphics processing units. The first discrete cards are expected to drop next year and in the interview, Raja also confirms existing Iris Xe graphics will support XeSS, Intel’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS, and that it is talking with board partners about making their own cards based on Alchemist.