Intel CEO sees 'less need for discrete graphics' and now we're really worried about its upcoming Battlemage gaming GPU and the rest of Intel's graphics roadmap

Is Intel's nascent Arc gaming graphics for the chop? That's now our fear following comments from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Put simply, Gelsinger sees "less need for discrete graphics in the market going forward". Yikes.

Instead, in last week's quarterly grilling with the usual Wallstreet suspects, Gelsinger said Intel's focus with graphics will increasingly become what he described as "large integrated graphics capabilities". In other words, graphics built into CPUs, not proper gaming graphics cards.