Intel has already stated their deal with Nvidia, this came out in December.

If you think there will be shipping Druid products, I guess you can find out sometime in 2028.

He doesn't work there anymore, and neither does a significant fraction of the GPU engineering team.

Druid, the 4th generation, has been shelved entirely, and all consumer DGPU products, possibly _all_ DGPU products, have been killed for Celestial.

Its likely the only products shipping with Celestial will be IGPUs for the next generation and a half, until Serpent Lake comes out with RTX graphics tiles from Nvidia, and then never another Xe product ever again.

Windows performance is also often worse than Wine/Proton's.

If anything, you might have to pay to have them disposed of, they don't really have any meaningful used eBay market outside of the randos that want to do high end extreme local inference in their basement.

Also, as for RAMmageddon, the inference SBCs that all of the AI bros bought don't have DIMMs, they're not even the right chip: its all GDDR and LPDDR. The only DDR DIMMs being consumed are for regular non-inference machines that help run the business and service infrastructure behind the scenes.

They merged with Oppo, and ever since its just been rebranded Oppo phones... they're fine, they work, but they're not the magic OnePlus was.

Google is okay for now (I recently got a Pixel 10, its fine, it can run Graphene).

Next year Motorola flagships will also have official Graphene support.

Should be real simple if the HN AI echochamber is right, right?

CUDA is no different, in fact, often worse. Nvidia is bad at documenting which hardware does what things, and CUDA users often have to use third party tables to figure out what hardware can't do what and disappoint customers who unwisely invested into it.

Having to deal with closed source opaque poorly documented stacks sucks.

No reason to tie yourself to Nvidia's moat.

As they say, qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent.

Arc's team was disproportionately effected by the layoffs. A lot of the major engineers that worked there changed their Linked in details to list Nvidia, AMD, etc.

As for DC and Workstation GPUs, they also seem to be canceled.

We'll see next year, I guess.

Nova Lake (Series 4) is already too late in development to switch, so its shipping with Celestial, and Titan Lake (Series 5) after it will be essentially a Nova Lake refresh using a hybrid tile that is Celestial's graphics engine with Druid's media, memory, and bus controllers (since Druid development has been halted).

Serpent Lake (Series 6) will be the first that can ship with Nvidia tiles, which should launch in early 2028.

Unless something changes, there will be no DGPU Celestial products.

Unfortunately, the ink on the contract is already dry, so this is the end of Intel's GPU unit.