Intel has announced that hardware ray tracing will be supported on its upcoming graphics cards, at least on data center models, but it may be a good hint that the company's flagship GPUs will also take on supporting technology. The news that Intel's Xe graphics processors will carry this support appeared in a lengthy blog post about the FMX graphics conference, in which the company said: "The Intel Xe architecture roadmap for optimized rendering from the data center includes support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing for the Intel rendering framework family of APIs and libraries." Therefore, there are many questions about whether Intel graphics cards could support ray tracing, given that Nvidia has been a big proponent of the technology with its latest Turing RTX products, which have dedicated cores to better meet ray tracing requirements. - And this company will be Intel's biggest rival in the field of GPUs. And if your data center GPUs include hardware-level ray tracing support, imagine Intel is also preparing you for their classic graphics card offerings (or at least higher-end cards perhaps). Obviously, this is all speculation, and there is no guarantee that this will happen. As usual, you'll have to wait and see, but with Intel's new GPUs expected to come out in 2020, it may take a long time before we know exactly where the chip giant plans to go further with tracking support. . Another caveat here as well: the above announcement indicates that ray tracing is on the architecture roadmap, so it doesn't necessarily mean it will be involved in the initial incarnation of Xe products. Intel. But obviously we can expect that this is probably the case.