Intel has confirmed that it has halted plans for a unified gaming companies layer, often known as Project Endgame, probably placing its cloud ambitions on maintain whereas it prioritizes Arc GPU driver growth.

Project Endgame is a type of behind-the-scenes initiatives that Intel by no means actually introduced, however hinted at last year. “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 stated. “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. Users work together with it remotely, in order that any mouse or keyboard inputs must journey over the Internet, backwards and forwards. What Intel appeared to indicate with Endgame was a twist: use a neighborhood PC, a distant server, and even probably a second PC as accessible {hardware} assets to energy video games.

It’s doable that that was the unique plan. But Intel’s Arc GPUs had a considerably rocky launch, as shortly after Intel printed its Endgame plans the corporate needed to cope with an Arc notebook launch affected by excessive costs and low efficiency. Fortunately, our tests were a little better, although the first tests of the desktop A380 started off weird till Intel started ramping up its driver growth. Intel’s Arc drivers are in a much better place now.

All which will have soured Intel’s administration on Project Endgame. After all, growing a unified gaming companies layer and bettering Arc’s drivers in all probability fell to the identical workforce inside Intel. Prioritizing one in all probability meant de-prioritizing the opposite.

So it’s actually no shock that the Intel Graphics workforce casually disclosed on Twitter that sure, you received’t be seeing any Project Endgame growth anytime quickly. “Our Project Endgame efforts are on hold,” Intel stated. We don’t have any updates to share at the moment.”

Oh properly.