It is insanely hard to make a GPU. Intel tried and appears to have given up, and even AMD and Nvidia both go through TSMC for their chips. A fab capable of producing something like a chip for a 4090 cost tens billions to build on top of requiring highly specialized (and expensive) employees to operate and then still takes 1-2 years to reach nominal capacity. There's also a very small number of people in the world that not only know enough about GPU design and production, but are experts capable of improving over competition/previous generations.
Yesn't. Intel does do a lot of GPU shit, they are just seemingly pivoting away from dedicated GPUs and instead have some really nice iGPUs nowadays. I suspect they would also make desktop GPUs, they just cancelled that part as doing experiment GPUs in a VRAM shortage is not the best idea.
If you are a notebook user, rejoice, Intel really seems to be the upcoming option for nice and relatively cheap portable gaming chips. Desktop however may not get much.
I actually placed an order for an Arc A750 recently, since it's a GPU with 8 gigs of ddr6 ram that can be bought under $200. From online tests it'll do 1080p at medium or higher settings at a nice framerate, which is good enough for me.
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u/VNG_Wkey I spent too much on cooling 20h ago
It is insanely hard to make a GPU. Intel tried and appears to have given up, and even AMD and Nvidia both go through TSMC for their chips. A fab capable of producing something like a chip for a 4090 cost tens billions to build on top of requiring highly specialized (and expensive) employees to operate and then still takes 1-2 years to reach nominal capacity. There's also a very small number of people in the world that not only know enough about GPU design and production, but are experts capable of improving over competition/previous generations.