> They weren’t going to start making great GPUs now.

But that's exactly what they started doing with Battlemage? It's competitive in its price range and was showing generational strides.

> Besides, who would actually use them if they don’t support CUDA?

ML is starting to trend away from CUDA towards Vulkan, even on Nvidia hardware, for practical reasons (e.g. performance overhead).

Intel has been trying to make decent GPUs for 25+ years. No company is going to invest billions buying Intel GPUs - especially not the hyper scalers.