It’s been nearly a year since Intel and NVIDIA officially announced their partnership to develop new products, and since then, we have heard little about what those products might actually be. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan recently confirmed that the collaboration was ongoing to “develop exciting new products”, which led to even more speculation. Now, it looks like we are getting a clearer picture of what this partnership might entail.
According to a report by Videocardz, citing Turkish tech site editor, Erdi Özüağ, Intel’s first x86 processors with integrated NVIDIA RTX Graphics will arrive in 2028. Specifically, according to Erdi Özüağ, who claims to have seen Intel’s CPU roadmap, the jointly developed processors are on track for a Q1 2028 release. This is big news on the heels of NVIDIA’s RTX Spark, as it raises more questions than answers about what the big-three relationship looks like.
On the one hand, NVIDIA and Intel collaborating on an x86 processor is huge news. NVIDIA’s RTX Blackwell graphics are at the heart of their latest Spark chips, but they are paired with Arm cores rather than x86 ones. This means the two products are unlikely to be in direct competition; however, the target appears to be AMD and its Ryzen AI processor lineup.
The leak also states that if the plans do not change, we could see the official announcement of these processors at CES 2028. Shedding more light on the supply chain situation, Özüağ states that Apple is apparently also in the mix, tapping Intel for its next-gen M-series chips, which are expected to be produced using the 18A process.
Back to NVIDIA and Intel for a moment: these next-gen SoCs are supposedly part of Intel’s Serpent Lake lineup, which is expected to target both graphical and compute performance. Details about this lineup are scarce, as the timeline puts it nearly 1.5 years away. We don’t have a good idea of where these CPUs will be manufactured either, but Intel’s 18A-P node is looking like the likely home.
It must be remembered that this is not the first “unlikely duo” in the CPU space. Intel itself collaborated with arch-rival AMD back in 2018 on its “Kaby Lake-G” CPU lineup. These processors integrated AMD’s Vega graphics and were built on the 14nm process. We have come a long way since then, and the upcoming Intel RTX SoCs look a lot more exciting than the ones we had before.
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