Intel has confirmed that it has halted plans for a unified gaming companies layer, referred to as Venture Endgame, presumably placing its cloud ambitions on maintain whereas it prioritizes Arc GPU driver improvement.
Venture Endgame is a kind of behind-the-scenes tasks that Intel by no means actually introduced, however hinted eventually yr. “Project Endgame is a unified services layer that harnesses computing resources everywhere – cloud, edge, and your home, to improve your gaming, and non-gaming, PC experiences,” the corporate mentioned. “With Project Endgame, we can untether our users from their local hardware specs.”
Intel by no means clarified what it meant by that assertion, although we are able to make some guesses: cloud gaming merely places an GPU or a PC on a distant server. Customers work together with it remotely, in order that any mouse or keyboard inputs must journey over the Web, forwards and backwards. What Intel appeared to suggest with Endgame was a twist: use a neighborhood PC, a distant server, and even presumably a second PC as out there {hardware} assets to energy video games.
It’s potential that that was the unique plan. However Intel’s Arc GPUs had a considerably rocky launch, as shortly after Intel printed its Endgame plans the corporate needed to take care of an Arc pocket book launch affected by excessive costs and low efficiency. Luckily, our checks had been a little bit higher, although the primary checks of the desktop A380 began off bizarre till Intel started ramping up its driver improvement. Intel’s Arc drivers are in a significantly better place now.
All which will have soured Intel’s administration on Venture Endgame. In any case, creating a unified gaming companies layer and enhancing Arc’s drivers most likely fell to the identical group inside Intel. Prioritizing one most likely meant de-prioritizing the opposite.
So it’s actually no shock that the Intel Graphics group casually disclosed on Twitter that sure, you gained’t be seeing any Venture Endgame improvement anytime quickly. “Our Project Endgame efforts are on hold,” Intel mentioned. We don’t have any updates to share presently.”
Oh properly.
