Intel Discontinues Deep Link Support and Future Updates for Intel-Based Systems

I’m not really sure where to start with this — maybe at the beginning? Intel’s Deep Link technology — you probably haven’t heard of it unless you’re really into tech stuff — has been kicked to the curb. It’s weird, right? I mean, it was supposed to revolutionize things or whatever. Anyway, someone from Intel, not even through a formal statement, just casually dropped the bomb on GitHub.

So, Zack-Intel — maybe a real person, maybe not, who knows — mentioned in some thread that Deep Link isn’t getting any love moving forward. It kinda stayed on the down-low until a user named SapphireDrew popped up, trying to figure out why things weren’t working with OBS Studio. Shoutout to OBS by the way, love those guys for streaming.

Where was I? Oh, yeah. SapphireDrew thought maybe it was an OBS issue, but nope. Turns out, Intel just decided to ghost Deep Link. Zack-Intel came back a month later — bit late, don’t you think? — to say, “Hey, it’s not your fault. Deep Link just isn’t our priority anymore.” Disheartening, right? Especially for those who grabbed Intel’s Arc Alchemist GPUs hoping this would be their ticket to supercharged gaming.

And there goes Intel’s pitch about Deep Link being this magical elixir for performance. Their whole spiel was about making gaming, creating, and streaming smoother. Now, with all these fancy words — Dynamic Power Share, Hyper Encode — they’re pretty much useless if Intel’s not updating anything. It’s like they wrote a love song to technology and then forgot the lyrics.

Thing is, this tech was like a handshake between Intel’s CPU and GPU. Helping them work buddy-buddy to allocate resources or whatever. But now? Without updates, it’s kinda like trying to play a CD in 2023 — not quite perfect.

To make things worse, it only played nice with Intel stuff — AMD and NVIDIA users are out of luck. So now, without support, it’s got that “buy at your own risk” vibe. Feels like being handed a smartphone with no internet. You’ll get basic calls and texts but forget about streaming movies in HD.

So yeah, Intel Deep Link — here today, forgotten tomorrow. If you invested in this when it launched with the Arc Alchemist, maybe take a moment for yourself. It’s a bummer. Anyway, let’s see what Intel cooks up next. Or not. Depends on if they ghost us again.