Intel shared its Q3 2019 financials, that info we'll bypass however the transcript points out something far more interesting than their financials, Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan, told investors that Intel has powered on the Intel Xe DG1 graphics card for the first time in the lab.

Intel CEO said that an Intel Xe discrete GPU card has successfully powered on in the labs. They still expect the first availability to be in the latter half of 2020. Swann added that Intel is on track to deliver a 7nm GPU in 2021 and is "well down the engineering path" for 5nm production, he reports.

A tweet by Chris Hook (Graphics and Visual Technologies Marketing Chief at Intel Corporation) confirmed it in a bit of a Frankenstein, way ...

Intel DG1 Xe graphics card is Alive