Intel is looking for more community aid from you: denizens of the internet that live and breath new tech. The company traditionally embroiled in x86 is embarking on a relatively new venture, aiming to build and ship an entire new graphics card by 2020, and is asking for you to offer your thoughts and feelings on how it should go about doing so.
Intel just announced, via the Intel Graphics Twitter account, its community-based program called ‘The Odyssey’. Through this community outreach, the company and its graphics team, led by Raja Koduri, hopes to “listen, engage, and bring along a genuinely passionate community on a journey into a better visual experience.”
Graphics card development tends to happen behind closed doors in R&D labs with the curtains drawn resolutely shut. While that’s almost certainly still the case even with Intel’s upcoming GPU architecture, the company seemingly wants to open its doors just a smidge to share hardware and software advancements, industry collaborations for gamers and content creators, and listen to what the community has to say.