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The mere fact that Apple's claims to challenge NVidia's best weren't dismissed with a laughable graph, and instead were concluded to be "well, a bit of a marketing stretch, but not a bad attempt Apple"...

When Intel has been failing at discrete graphics competition with ATI/NVidia for... two decades? Yet Apple cranks out a functional competitor a year after their first desktop chip. Yes they probably have lots of experience with integrated graphics on SOC for the iPhones so this isn't totally out of the blue. But still.

What has Intel been doing all these years? Is it THAT dysfunctional? Add to the failures of VLIW/Itanium, loss of the SSD crown, underwhelming XPoint, no ARM competitors, no real position in mobile, twice getting passed up by AMD in the performance race, a company with 1/10th, possibly 1/100th the resources.

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Intel did make GPU recently, I think? I though they have at least improved from "Just don't play games on this" to "Plays if it isn't power hungry". Consider they are not really doing anything about gaming in the past 10(?) years. It is a decent improvement.