But video cards may only come out next year
Intel said that its graphics architecture team is already fully focused on working on the Celestial generation of video cards.
Let us remind you that this generation will be released after Battlemage, which, in turn, is expected this year. Intel says only about 30% of its 3D team is still working on Battlemage, and that's mostly software work, while the hardware team is working on Celestial.
If we draw analogies, it’s as if Nvidia announced that its engineers are already working on the GeForce RTX 60 line, and all the work on the RTX 50 remains only in the software part.
True, there is an important nuance. If earlier Intel itself actively said that Battlemage would be released in 2024, now, despite the above-mentioned statement, Tom Petersen, who is developing the graphics architecture, stipulated that, as he hopes, Battlemage will see the light before CES 2025. That is, now in the very Intel is not confident that it will have time to release new generation video cards before the end of this year.
Recall that earlier Raja Koduri said that the Battlemage line, like the current Alchemist, will include a maximum of adapters with a TDP of about 225 W, that is, there will not be real flagship adapters there. Given that there are now rumors that AMD will also not present top-end solutions in the Radeon 8000 line, a curious picture is emerging where Nvidia simply will not have any competition in the upper segment.