Intel clarifies then confuses Xe graphics card ray tracing acceleration rumours

Intel has clarified statements made regarding its Intel Xe graphics cards launching next year, and whether or not its maiden GPU will launch with ray tracing... kind of. A company spokesperson has said that any ‘confirmation’ recently announced by the company over in Tokyo was actually due to a dodgy translation from Japanese to English. Over at an Intel developer conference in Tokyo, reports came flooding in claiming that Intel’s director of technology, Kenichiro Yasu, had confirmed ray tracing would feature on the company’s Intel Xe dGPUs. However, that’s turned out not to be the case. In fact, Yasu never even touched upon the subject and was wrongly attributed due to poor translation from the source material posted by mynavi.jp, according to Intel's statement (via ITHome). Now where have we heard that one before? Oh right. Intel’s Raja Koduri was also wrongly translated to and from Russian earlier this year, when it was reported that its discrete graphics cards would start out life at $200 and feature HBM2 memory. Unfortunately high bandwidth memory that cheap really was too good to be true.
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