Intel's new Battlemage graphics coming this year

THE ASSAULT OF THE DISCRETE graphic card market by Intel has been fairly leisurely.

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Its first-gen Arc Alchemist cards are cost-effective, and feature set is decent. But initial driver problems were legion. The latter has been addressed, but all we've seen in nearly two years are graphics cards that just about compete at the lower end of the market. The challenge for Intel's second generation of GPUs is to raise the game. Enter Battlemage, with its Xe