Our friend Michael over at Phoronix spotted today that Intel’s XPU Manager 1.3.5 now includes explicit support for Intel’s “BMG-G31,” marking another software-level confirmation that Intel’s larger “Big Battlemage” die is in active development and driver testing. This sort of entry in an Intel-maintained tooling package is low-noise evidence, because vendors generally don’t add device IDs for hardware that doesn’t exist.
This update joins a steady trickle of corroborating traces in the open-source…
