Intel has published a new Product Change Notification (PCN) that can confirm its limited-edition Arc A770 graphics card has officially been discontinued, with June 20, 2023, having been listed as the product’s last discontinuance order/shipment date.
Originally released on October 12, 2022, with a $349 MSRP, the Arc A770 Limited Edition may be fondly remembered by some as being one of the first discrete in-house designs that Intel developed to showcase its Arc Alchemist architecture, which has since expanded to professional use cases and more.
There doesn’t seem to be any news yet on whether the Arc A750 Limited Edition is also going away, but Intel has made sure to correct some publications that were led to believe that it had killed off Arc A770 GPUs entirely.
From a PC Gamer post:
Update, June 21: Intel has officially confirmed to us it is only discontinuing the Intel branded Arc A770 LE card, and that it is “still producing silicon for AIBs.”
Original story: It’s official. As of June 20th, the Intel-made Arc A770 is history, an ex graphics card. Intel has released a PCN or Product Change Notification for the card. The “key characteristics” of this change? “Product discontinuance”. Yikes.
The notice (currently at the top of Intel’s PCN list) says that June 20th was the final date for both orders and shipments. It’s basically giving all Intel’s customers the heads up that it will no longer be taking orders for Intel-made Arc A770 cards and likewise the last shipments have gone out.
Discussion (8 replies)
Join Discussion →They are just discontinuing the first party card - they are still making silicon for third party AIB cards
What third-party AIB cards? I have not seen any in the US. I've seen articles that say Acer, Asrock, etc, but I've not seen any of those in the wild.
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Yeah I've seen them very rarely, not really advertised or anything.
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Well, hopefully with the amount of good press it got as driver updates improved its gaming performance the next round will be more readily available. The launch for this gen was pretty rough but it was their first attempt and could've still been worse.
Limited Edition - It's in the name
Let us all gather in spirit for a moment of silence to mourn the loss of the Intel® Arc™ A770 Limited Edition graphics card, known by some as product code 21P01J00BA. May you rest in peace. ?
Perhaps next time they'd consider going with "Signature Edition" or some other name that's less limited. I believe Founders Edition is taken.
The Intel brand appeals to me because I don't trust any of the AIBs. I'd pay extra within reason just to avoid them. I don't see what value they could add at this price point. What type of bearing did Intel use for the fans? AIBs used to cheapen out on fan bearings for the less expensive cards, resulting in fans that didn't last the lifetime of the card. They were also a pain to replace.
Hummm what about the FAB edition? It's from the Intel FAB and it's FABULOUS!! ;)