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BLUE DAWN

We all love a plucky underdog story, and Intel’s entry to the discrete graphics card market felt like just that in 2022. Strange as it sound to describe a semiconductor behemoth with a $140bn market cap as the Mighty Ducks to Nvidia’s Hawks, it does make sense when you consider that Jensen Huang’s outfit has a $1.13 trillion market cap.

Besides, the graphics war hadn’t been Intel’s fight until the release of the Arc A750 and A770 cards. Not really. Intel’s on-die graphics served a small proportion of the gaming community, but it was Nvidia and AMD who were really down

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