I love the intel graphics linux driver. It's the only GPU with which I've been able to get HDMI working on a laptop in Linux. What I don't like is Intel spendi

I love the intel graphics linux driver. It's the only GPU with which I've been able to get HDMI working on a laptop in Linux. What I don't like is Intel spending so much area for the iGPU[1]. Why should an iGPU be consuming nearly the same area as 4 cores? An area optimised iGPU that can only do a few GFLOPS is good enough, and where it isn't (gaming, deep learning), a discrete GPU with wide memory will be needed anyway. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968/the-intel-core-i7-7700k-91w-review-the-new-stock-performance-champion http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968/the-intel-core-i7-7700k-...