Intel x Nvidia: Hammer Lake leaks with "large and powerful" (Nvidia) iGPU (www.notebookcheck.net)

Leaked reports from Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID) and other sources say Intel’s long-rumored collaboration with Nvidia will culminate in Hammer Lake APUs (expected in 2029) shipping with a “large and powerful” Nvidia GeForce RTX iGPU. Intel has publicly framed Nvidia-powered iGPUs as a complement to its Arc lineup, but MLID contends Intel will eventually pivot fully to Nvidia iGPUs for some x86 products. The leak also updates Intel’s roadmap: Panther Lake is followed by Nova, Razer, Titan and Hammer families, with Nova Lake-S and a new LGA1954 socket slated around 2026; Titan Lake may be limited to mobile APUs while Titan desktop CPUs are reportedly canceled. For the AI/ML community, integrated RTX silicon in mainstream Intel APUs could be a major shift: expect on-die RT and Tensor cores, native support for Nvidia’s acceleration features (potentially CUDA-accelerated inference, TensorRT optimizations, and DL supersampling on laptops) and tighter software/hardware co-design for edge and client ML workloads. That promises better local inferencing performance and more ubiquitous access to Nvidia’s stack, but raises questions about driver ecosystems, platform fragmentation, and the future of Intel’s Arc discrete GPUs. These leaks should be treated cautiously, but if true the move reshapes competition and deployment options for accelerated ML across consumer and datacenter x86 platforms.