To Xe or not Xe, is that the question?

We, along with just about anyone with a keyboard and internet access, reported on Intel’s comments at its Architecture day about its forthcoming GPU. In the rush to scoop something, anything, interesting or possibly even meaningful about Intel’s promised GPU, the news and pundits have decided Intel has branded it as the Xe chip. It hasn’t. What Intel actually said was that Xe is an architectural transition to scalability in graphics, not a chip per se. There will not be an Xe GPU, code named or branded. There will be a GPU with an architectural foundation that Intel will refer