Intel has yet to make a massive impact on the graphics card industry. That’s understandable, given Nvidia’s long-time dominance, and the presence of AMD, especially off the back of Team Red’s best Radeon GPU launch of all time with the RX 9070 XT. However, for fans of Intel, the good news is that the company isn’t giving up on discrete graphics cards.

The most recent generation of Intel GPUs is Battlemage, which so far includes the Arc B580 and Arc B570 cards. These two are budget options that deliver excellent performance, targeting the sub-$300 price bracket. We’re sure that fans would love to see more, especially more powerful options, and this could be what we’re getting as new job listings reveal Intel wants to aim higher.

Intel advertises new job listings for discrete graphics

New job adverts were spotted by Haze2K1 on X, detailing Intel’s interest in pushing its discrete graphics department further. This comes soon after Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, looks to shake-up the company structure and culture with some widespread changes.

“Intel’s second generation Discrete Graphics, aka BattleMage, has received strong market feedback. However, we are shooting for much much higher! We know that if we want to achieve our goals, people is [sic] the only thing that matters. If you want to do something fun, grow your career and make a difference, please consider our Discrete Graphics SOC organization. We have quite a few openings now and upcoming in virtually all SOC disciplines.”

Intel, via LinkedIn

We’re interested to learn what Intel can deliver next when it comes to graphics cards for PC gamers. Its current line-up is strong, but it very much focuses on the entry-level to mid-range market, and nothing beyond that. We haven’t seen any other indication that Team Blue plans to release a true successor to the first-gen Arc A770, but we’d like to see it happen.

Intel has been committed to improve its current graphics solutions, whether those be dGPUs or integrated graphics, recently focusing on better support for Black Ops 6 and newer titles via drivers. On top of that, it continues to develop AI-accelerated XeSS features, recently giving the XeSS 2 SDK an open-source release.

If you’re interested in working for Intel, then head on over to the company’s job portal here.

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Jack Goodall

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