Yeah, very glad that Intel has stayed in the market.
It's very refreshing to see a company release a reasonable, though that term has been skewed so much over the years, budget cpu that doesn't completely suck and actually tries to run current green games.
It would be incredibly stupid for Intel to abandon the dGPU market after spending all this money on it. As long as Battlemage turns out alright (basically it's only goal) I doubt it will go away.
They cut the die size nearly in half so they're no longer blowing a fuck ton of money on a $200 GPU. As long as utilization of the silicon goes up it should be fine.
Apparently Intel is replacing Gelsinger because his plan to turn the company's fortunes around are taking too long. My guess is the new CEO will likely sell off major parts of the company and I doubt the dGPU division will be kept
I haven't been a huge fan of Intel for their cpus for some time now, but I agree, there needs to be more gpu competition out there. I've been wanting to try out an Arc for a while, I'm just hoping the dgpu drivers are better than what they run for their integrated chips.