19/09/2025
In an unexpected twist, Intel and Nvidia are teaming up to put RTX graphics directly into Intel PC chips, likely for laptops.
The deal involves Intel and Nvidia jointly developing “multiple generations of custom datacenter and PC products” for both the enterprise and consumer markets.
The partnership covers Intel’s processors for the x86 architecture, which are used for Windows PCs and servers. Intel CPUs have long featured their own "integrated" graphics, often found in thin and light laptops. For added graphics power, your PC can include a dedicated Nvidia GPU, either as a full-size desktop graphics card or as a discrete GPU inside a laptop.
In a surprise, it looks like Team Blue has decided to shelve its own integrated graphics for an Nvidia GPU “chiplet” that’ll be attached to at least some Intel CPUs.
“For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SOCs will power a wide range of PCs that demand integration of world-class CPUs and GPUs,” the companies said.
Although we suspect the deal will focus on laptop chips, it's possible Intel could also feature the Nvidia GPUs on processors for mini PCs. (In 2017, Intel also partnered with AMD to create an eighth-generation Core chip featuring a Radeon RX Vega M graphics processor.)
The Intel chips will integrate the RTX chiplets by leveraging Nvidia’s NVLink, a high-speed interface to increase data transfer rates between a CPU and GPU. Nvidia usually talks about NVLink for data centers, but now the technology will be baked into the supported Intel chips.
📸: Nvidia/Intel
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