Intel's next Arc graphics cards will not have any anti-mining features to prevent cryptocurrency mining. In an interview, Raja Koduri and Roger Chandler of the corporation made this clear.

According to Koduri of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics division and Chandler of Client Graphics Products and Solutions, a software lock system against crypto mining "is not a priority" he said in an interview with Gadgets 360 on the upcoming Arc series of graphics cards.

"We're not going to put any extra work into it." According to the two executives, the card should simply be made available to everyone, and the company has concentrated on optimizing the card for gamers and content makers in particular. It is in this respect that they differ from Nvidia, which has devised a kind of software lock for its RTX 3000 series in the shape of the Lite Hash Rate initiative, in order to prevent miners from buying up the entire stock at once, in their own words. As a result, Koduri and Chandler state that they are unable to guarantee that there will be sufficient supply when the Arc GPUs, codenamed Alchemist, is released in early 2022.

“Due to the high demand, I cannot guarantee that there will be enough stock. The same is probably true for the competition.” This is due in part to the fact that the graphics card market is challenging, with worldwide chip shortages and delivery issues, which could result in demand not being met by early 2022.

Intel Arc graphics cards will not have a built-in crypto mining lock.