maybe I'm missing something important, but it seems like it could only be a super niche part for a laptop. why spend extra board area and BOM on an eGPU that ba

maybe I'm missing something important, but it seems like it could only be a super niche part for a laptop. why spend extra board area and BOM on an eGPU that barely outperforms the iGPU? seems like it would make more sense as an absolute bottom-of-the-barrel desktop part. maybe you have some old desktop that you want to turn into an HTPC, but it doesn't have the right ports or the ability to decode high bitrate video in realtime. plop one of these guys in for (ideally) $xx and you're good to go. of course, this would be the opposite of the high-margin stuff intel likes to make.