Last year, the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series introduced customers to a flexible, general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) for the data center and the intelligent visual cloud. Since its introduction, Intel has expanded the Intel Flex Series GPU's production-level software capabilities, including new support for Windows cloud gaming, AI inference and digital content creation.

As Flex Series GPU adoption grows in the market, customers, solution providers and developers are utilizing the hardware's capabilities across many real-world scenarios:

• Cloud service providers are deploying instances of Windows cloud gaming alongside streaming and media acceleration.
• Media studios are testing and deploying Flex Series GPUs for high-density streaming and transcoding.
• Digital content creators are using the platform for fast, real-time rendering using ray tracing hardware acceleration.

In particular, the addition of Windows cloud gaming allows the Flex Series GPU to address the growing gaming market. The rapid growth of the global cloud gaming market is estimated to reach a targeted market value of about $13.3 billion by 2028, with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 42.5% from 2022 to 2028. Game service providers must continually innovate to deliver first-rate playing experiences to their subscribers while operating the most efficient infrastructure possible.