On Monday, AMD launched its lower-end, Navi-based, 7nm (nanometer) RX 5500 GPU. Moreover, rumors stated that its next-generation GPU would feature ray tracing and could launch next year. Last Friday, rumors around NVIDIA’s next-generation 7nm Ampere GPU architecture reignited. NVIDIA was the first to introduce ray tracing in its Turing GPUs in August 2018.

Intel’s chief architect, Raja Koduri, leveraged this enthusiasm around GPUs and dropped hints about the company’s upcoming GPU with ray tracing. Last Friday, he tweeted a picture of the license plate on his Tesla Model X and tagged @IntelGraphics. His license plate read “THINKXE,” which means “Think Exponential.” This gives us a hint that Intel’s new Xe GPU architecture could be exponential, scaling from low-end embedded GPUs all the way to high-performance server GPUs.