GRAPHICS CHANGING THE STATE OF PLAY

Graphics are due for an exciting year. AMD and Nvidia are squaring up against each other to deliver a new generation of powerful discrete GPUs, but there’s a newcomer: Intel, promising to make its GPU debut in 2020 with a new series of cards, currently named the Xe series. While we haven’t seen a full lineup announcement yet, at the time of writing, Intel did reveal more about this potentially interesting GPU at CES 2020. Before then we had a few scraps of information. The news of Xe’s existence was leaked all the way back in 2018, at which point the given code name was Arctic