The processors Intel Kaby Lake-G, the hybrid solutions they see on the same package an Intel CPU and a dedicated AMD GPU, they return to the headlines despite retiring last October, about two years after the announcement. After 12 months in which the buyers of the NUC "Hades Canyon" and some laptops have not seen any driver update, here is finally moving something.
For a few weeks (going completely unnoticed), on the Intel website, what apparently appear as new drivers have been published, but in reality it is a PDF in which it is explained go to the AMD website and download the latest Adrenalin 2020 for the Radeon RX Vega 64. In the past, Intel had stated that it would provide driver support for several years, implying that it would continue to occupy it, validating the drivers as done previously.
Evidently the company must have thought that the effort was not worth the candle, leaving "driver freedom" to the NUC and the few other systems that arrived on the market. It's not necessarily bad: except for possible bugs, given the absence of in-depth controls, those products will enjoy a fair performance boost and new features thanks to the new drivers.
For those who don't remember, the project Kaby Lake-G was born as Intel's first response to laptops with Nvidia Max-Q GPUs, which still allow laptop manufacturers to create ultra-thin models (about 17 millimeters) with high graphics power. Intel at the time had no chance of competing on the graphic front, so he turned to AMD to create Kaby Lake-G, a hybrid that put a valid processor and a powerful graphics chip on the same package, suitable for gaming notebooks and mini PC.
The project, however, did not take hold, also because it perhaps represented a legacy of the past, something that had been put in place some time before without believing in the end: think that the Kaby Lake-G CPUs with RX Vega M graphics (whose architecture was in reality more similar to Polaris) were announced on November 6, 2017, while about two days later Intel formalized the entry into the company of Raja Koduri, former boss of AMD's RTG division, and the decision to create an ad hoc division for the development of Dedicated GPUs.