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Intel is now reportedly planning to counter AMD's recent dominance in high-end gaming by incorporating similar technology in its upcoming Nova Lake CPUs.

AMD's has a super fast point-to-point internal interconnect for its CPUs, while Intel currently uses a ring bus to connect cores, graphics and higer-level cache memory.

Now, the very same G31 has popped up in the official MESA OpenGL drivers for Linux, and there's even more reason to believe Intel might actually launch a high-performance gaming GPU later this year.