We've been reporting on the hoped-for launch of Intel's "big Battlemage" GPU for what seems like forever. The latest step towards that near-mythical eventuality is the emergence of packaging for the supposedly upcoming RTX 5070-walloping graphics card in a shipping manifest.
Interpreting these shipping manifests from the NBD website is something of an art in itself. But short version is that there are entries for packaging for something listed as "G31/C32", where G31 is thought to be Intel's internal code for a new bigger GPU based on its latest Battlemage or Xe2 graphics tech, as used in the Intel Arc B580 cards you can (kinda) already buy.
