The gaming GPU market desperately needs real competition — perhaps Intel will bring it to Computex? Officially, the company’s only teasing new Arc Pro GPUs for pros, but its X account mysteriously keeps saying “stay tuned” to commenters who ask about an unannounced B770 gaming GPU!
If the Arc B770 is real — and follows the path laid out by the B580 and B570 before it — it could give Nvidia and AMD a run for the money.
I tried the Bambu Lab $63 kit that lets you 3D print your own magnetic levitating toys complete with wireless power for their lights! It’s part of its Maker’s Supply initiative where it stocks electronic and mechanical components to design around.
I printed DjangoCashflow’s BttF hoverboard and Doctor Who Tardis, fana’s floating light bulb, and N3D’s pokeball. You can also find designs for the house from Up, a Millennium Falcon, an Iron Man Arc Reactor, and more!
You can turn on your Steam Deck LCD from across the room with a Bluetooth controller (only the OLED model did that at launch!) and I’m personally excited to finally use my Bluetooth headset’s microphone for chat while I game (sadly just in Desktop mode for now). Plus much more!
All these changes already arrived in the Preview branch back in March and in April, but there be dragons that way. Much more accessible now.
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AMD, like Nvidia, is becoming an AI chip company. In February, I showed you how even Nvidia’s networking business is now bigger than gaming. Today, AMD’s (largely rosy!) Q1 2025 earnings show how far gaming has shrunk compared to its desktop and laptop CPUs.
Gaming used to be its own reporting segment, but that just changed this quarter. Gaming is also now smaller than AMD’s embedded business, which did $0.8B in revenue.
Intel’s XeSS 2 launched last December with just two games in tow — but five months later, your Series 2 Core Ultra laptop chip (e.g. Ultra 9 285H) or Battlemage desktop card (e.g. Arc B580) can can do tailored low latency frame gen in a full 19 titles.
Most are listed in the chart below. Intel tells us the others are Black Myth Wukong, Civilization VII, Fragpunk, Naraka Bladepoint, Steel Seed, The Talos Principle Reawakened, and Wild Assault.
“Is this the maximum speed? Should we just crash?” the F1 drivers laugh. Then, they do — and Lego bits fly everywhere! Such a brand stunt, and yet I’m so jealous. More on the cars here.
