Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU did not appear at CES but the rumours just won't go away

Intel's G31, the GPU otherwise expected to be known as the Intel Arc B770, is the rumoured graphics card that just won't die. It conspicuously did not appear at the CES show, but it's now been spotted in an Intel Panther Lake driver package, keeping hopes just barely alive.

As we understand it, somebody at the CES show rifled through the driver files of a laptop demo'ing Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chip and found references to the increasingly mythical G31 GPU.

Someone downloaded...