Many Team Blue enthusiasts were looking forward to a potential unveiling of a larger "Battlemage" gaming graphics card model at CES 2026, but keynote presentations and showroom floor exhibitions were devoid of fresh "Xe2 dGPU" content. Past weekend TechPowerUp reportage positioned the heavily speculated Arc "Battlemage" B770 design as the fifth greatest "no-show" at the recently concluded Las Vegas-based trade event. The "BMG-G31" GPU die codename has popped up regularly—via official sources and leaks alike—in recent times; leading to theories of an imminent product reveal. Late last week, web sleuths stumbled upon a downloadable folder that contained a "BMG-G31" firmware update. Apparently, an Intel driver package—relating to an HP-made "Panther Lake" laptop—was thoroughly examined.

Several PC hardware news outlets have broached the "B770" topic with Team Blue contacts at CES 2026, but no further details—of a notable unreleased product—were disclosed during the busy work week. Within the first half of January, Intel's "Panther Lake" mobile chips have taken precedence, although the adjacent "Wildcat Lake" APU was introduced in an extremely low-key way. The latest leak indicates the readying of drivers for some sort of consumer-level "BMG-G31" graphics product. The fourth quarter 2025 rumor mill pointed to a possible 300 W TDP-rated "B770" mainstream gaming card, leveraging 32 Xe2 cores and 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM—a significant step-up from the over-a-year-old Arc B580 12 GB model.