The Intel Battlemage is Intel's second newest generation of graphics cards and will most likely be available by the end of the year. However, only Intel knows exactly "when," but new industry sources put the release date before Black Friday. For non-Americans, Battlemage is said to launch before November 29.

ComputerBase reports that Battlemage will appear before Black Friday, according to "industry sources" at Embedded World 2024.

The Battlemage architecture will be used in desktop graphics cards of the grade that would interest PC gaming and is high on Embedded World 2024's "things that interest me" list.

The event was dedicated to low-power chips, and Intel announced six new embedded GPUs there. These are nothing new to us gamers, just rehashes of the Alchemist GPUs for edge systems, but it was surprising to see a 225W GPU, no doubt aimed at AI, and a new GPU for the next generation of embedded systems, the Alchemist GPU, which is a newer version of the Alchemist GPU.

To some extent, this Black Friday information is not groundbreaking; Intel is aiming to release Battlemage in late 2024, and with the big vacations and vacations in December, it is likely that it will be released by the end of November. Nevertheless, the rumor does not seem to indicate that Battlemage will be delayed at this time. Nevertheless, only Intel knows for sure.

Intel confirmed earlier this year that Battlemage is running in its labs. This means that the actual silicon is working, but whether the actual graphics card is ready yet is another story entirely. Intel is producing the first batch of Arc A750 and Arc A770 Limited Editions cards in-house, and some partners are producing all of the Arc cards available today. Intel was only able to convince a few manufacturers to jump on the Arc bandwagon early on, but it is hoping to get a few more with Battlemage.

The most important person Intel has to win with Battlemage is you: the Alchemist was unstable at launch, got a little better over time, and eventually became, temporarily, a half-assed cheap graphics card with lots of VRAM for the price. It became. But now it is struggling to compete with AMD's recent RX 7600; against AMD and Nvidia, Battlemage has to do a better job, but it is a tough job. The good news for Intel is that all the driver issues have been resolved. These kinks have been worked out, and that should still be the case for all future Arc products.

With Battlemage, Intel is aiming higher than pure cheapo budget GPUs. When I spoke with Arc guru Tom Petersen last year, I got the impression that he wanted Intel's graphics division to become more profitable. I took from that a desire to offer higher performance and charge more for the card because of it; the Arc A770 was supposed to perform better, hence the bizarrely large specs, but in the end Intel could not justify charging more for it. could not be justified.

It will be interesting to see if Intel gets there, or if we will instead have to wait another long time for the third-generation Celestial to arrive.