this is fine, there was nothing to tap out of skylake graphics any further anyway.

Undying:

Intel 11gen dont have Iris Xe graphics so it is effected. So support remains only for Alder Lake and Iris Xe igpus.

I have a device with the an 1160G7 and it does have an Xe IGPU. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/208661/intel-core-i71160g7-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz-with-ipu.html

To me, this feels like a rapid restructuring of existing staff responsibilities in a desperate attempt to get drivers ready for their discrete GPUs. Optane was also just completely canceled and there are reports that Intel and their graphics division are not on the same page. Intel's latest earnings call was brutal and the stock tanked on a day when stocks in general rallied quite a bit. Good thing 12th gen (and probably 13th gen) CPUs are pretty awesome.

nosirrahx:

To me, this feels like a rapid restructuring of existing staff responsibilities in a desperate attempt to get drivers ready for their discrete GPUs. Optane was also just completely canceled and there are reports that Intel and their graphics division are not on the same page. Intel's latest earnings call was brutal and the stock tanked on a day when stocks in general rallied quite a bit. Good thing 12th gen (and probably 13th gen) CPUs are pretty awesome.

This was on my mind too but waited to see if I was just thinking crazy again. Also don't worry folks Biden just gave INTEL a lot of money just a few days ago.

nosirrahx:

To me, this feels like a rapid restructuring of existing staff responsibilities in a desperate attempt to get drivers ready for their discrete GPUs. Optane was also just completely canceled and there are reports that Intel and their graphics division are not on the same page. Intel's latest earnings call was brutal and the stock tanked on a day when stocks in general rallied quite a bit. Good thing 12th gen (and probably 13th gen) CPUs are pretty awesome.

dropping old uarches to free up resources for new ones is pretty typical, happens all the time with both nvidia and amd, with nvidia dropping fermi a bit prematurely, without vulkan support and amd dropping tonga and fiji , even though they share virtually the same uarch as polaris(all being gfx8) i'm more surprised they didnt drop it sooner, since intel usually stops updating their gpu drivers only a couple years after launch (ironlake graphics only getting like 3 years on windows)