Intel is over GPUs and CPUs – it's all about 'XPUs' now that OneAPI code-abstraction tool is golden Intel would prefer developers stop talking about CPUs and GPUs and instead target "XPUs". The word about Chipzilla's new preferences came as it formally launched the OneAPI abstraction layer that lets applications tap whatever available resources are most appropriate to its needs, be that a CPU, a GPU, or an FPGA, from one …
Considering from a great height Apple completely shat all over Intel on Tuesday with Apple Silicon M1 and 5nm (sub-contracted) output.... Intel should be professionally fucking embarrassed.
Esp. as Intel XScale was in this marketplace 15 years ago before flogging too Marvell in 2006 to concentrate on X86 mobility.
This looks like a soup-stone exercise - using the same design in as many ways as possible.
At a guess the GPU device is the part that has been introduced as a laptop add-on GPU and will appear on low-end discrete graphics cards next year. And that seems to be very very similar to the Tiger Lake GPU.
It's probably much easier to share one low-end GPU across ~10 users, than gang them together to scale performance.
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