AMD's Strix Halo APU with its outsized integrated graphics is of debatable benefit for PC gaming (more on that in a moment).

It's uncertain if this will be GDDR6 or GDDR7 VRAM as it seems Team Blue is holding DDR7 VRAM to the next-gene "Celestial" graphics cards.

According to the latest rumors, the forthcoming Intel Nova Lake CPU lineup will contain Arc Xe3 Celestial and Xe4 Druid graphics tech.

Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU), so it’s very early days for 3rd-gen Celestial.

As if a solar eclipse weren't enough, observers on April 8 may also get a glimpse of a rare "horned" celestial show, a dazzlingly bright comet with a scary name. A comet designated 12P/Pons-Brooks ...

Intel’s Arc GPUs are still very much on track when it comes to the next-gen offerings, Battlemage and Celestial, plus Alchemist GPUs just got a big update that ensures they perform much faster ...

Universal Epic Universe's Celestial Park is a stunning original world with cosmic energy by day that transforms into a glowing wonderland at night.

Celestial has an interesting workaround for this with its memory expansion module. Since the bandwidth is going to be capped at 1.8 GB/sec anyway, the module will only contain two HBM stacks totaling ...

When Panther Lake launches as a follow-up to Arrow Lake, it will allegedly have Xe3 "Celestial" graphics. Nova Lake will also probably get this iGPU, or the company may have the fourth-generation ...

Intel plans to focus on selling these affordable graphics solutions in 2025. This means the Intel Arc Celestial series could come after 2026, featuring the new, faster GDDR7 memory.

In both cases, the iGPU will be based on the "Celestial" graphics architecture that will be a follow-up to the Battlemage iGPU cores found in the Lunar Lake chips.