Paper launch? Intel releases photos of Arc Pro graphics boards at Siggraph

At Siggraph-time Intel joined the ranks of professional graphics board developers with the introduction of the Intel Arc Pro A-series of GPUs. The first products are the Intel Arc Pro A30M GPU for mobile form factors and the Intel Arc Pro A40 (single slot) and A50 (dual slot) GPUs for small-form factor desktops. They all feature built-in ray tracing hardware, machine learning capabilities, and AV1 hardware encoding acceleration. The latter being a calling card for Intel since it revealed AV1 encoding and decoding last Spring. AV-1 has gained ground as a royalty-free video coding format developed by the Alliance for