Most of me still wonders how far Intel is going to get with a gaming card. Yes they spend more on champagne and caviar than AMD does on R&D, but they're still going to be in the same boat as AMD when it comes to having to circumvent nVidia's stranglehold on game studios, plus, knowing Intel, they're going to prioritize high margin markets, such as the professional and prosumer markets, much more than the low margin consumer ones.
I think they have a darn good chance at making a very high performance SoC, as they already have experience in that market, if they can integrate high performance memory onto the chip itself, something Raja has experience with, but as far as seeing a true competitor in the gaming market, that's not going to be for a while. It took ATI about 3 years to make a competitive video card with the 9600XT as the 7000 and 8000 series weren't very powerful if memory serves, and then they were epic fail for the next...5 years until the HD 4000 series, and you have to imagine both AMD and nVidia are going to go over every Intel card with an electron microscope ensuring not one of the 60 patents Peterson developed at nVidia nor any of Raja's AMD techniques are incorporated into them...All of this on top of Intel's fab issues...
Not that any of us would mind a third player in the market, even though Intel and nVidia both love to gouge more than a loan shark, it is highly unlikely Intel will think about pricing their products against nVidia for some time, and if Navi is able to rival the RTX 2000 series, that'd leave Intel in a very bad place.
