The announcement of Battlemage two days prior refuted industry-wide rumors that Intel was planning to sunset discrete Arc GPUs. After the fact, enthusiasts are already speculating about the next generation, namely Celestial. Tom Peterson from Intel AKA "TAP" joined The Full Nerd Podcast yesterday and confirmed that Arc isn't going anywhere - anytime soon with Celestial Xe3 "baked" on the architectural level and hardware teams already working on next-next-gen Xe4 Druid GPUs.
Cutting off the graphics division never made sense as that'd make Intel's mobile offerings highly uncompetitive compared to AMD, and even Snapdragon now. This isn't just a rhetorical statement since Intel's Lunar Lake can pull ahead of AMD's Strix Point offerings in gaming - putting Intel on top of the PC iGPU leaderboard after a very long time.
