They also seem to be the most willing to open up their GPU sharding API, GVTG, based on their work with their existing Xe GPUs. The performance of their implementation in their first generation was a bit underwhelming, but it seems like the intention is there.

If Intel is able to put out something reasonably competitive and that supports GPU sharding it could be a game changer. It could change the direction of the ecosystem and force Nvidia and AMD to bring sharding to their consumer tier cards. I am stoked to see where this new release takes us.

Level1Linux has a (reasonably) up to date state of the GPU ecosystem that does a much better job outlining the potential of this tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUS1W7Ifys

This is the main reason I'm excited about this. I really hope they continue the very open approach they've used so far, but even if they start going binary blob for some of it like nvidia and (now to a lesser extent) amd have at least they're likely to properly implement KMS and other things because that's what they've been doing already.

Came here to say this. This will be especially interesting if there's better support for GPU virtualization to allow a Windows VM to leverage the card without passing the entire card through.

This would be worth buying one for. It's super lame that foundational features like virtualization are used as leverage for price discrimination by Nvidia, and hopefully new competition can shake things up.

This was my thought too. If their linux driver support for this is as good as their integrated ones, I will be switching to Intel GPUs.

Yep, their WiFi chips have good open source drivers on Linux, as well. It would be nice to have a GPU option that isn't AMD for open driver support on Linux.

A long time Linux graphics driver dev friend of mine was just hired by Intel.

With the Steam Deck coming out, running Linux in a high-profile gaming device with AMD graphics, hopefully it'll turn into a mild Linux GPU driver arms race. AMD and Valve are both working on improving Linux support for AMD hardware, GPU and CPU.

Well. Every single AAA game is reflected in GPU drivers. I bet they need to work on windows drivers first. Sure they need to write tons of custom driver mods for hundreds of games.