Battlemage was still while Pat Gelsinger was CEO, and he was the only real champion of that product, understanding its place in Intel's overall strategy.
He doesn't work there anymore, and neither does a significant fraction of the GPU engineering team.
Druid, the 4th generation, has been shelved entirely, and all consumer DGPU products, possibly _all_ DGPU products, have been killed for Celestial.
Its likely the only products shipping with Celestial will be IGPUs for the next generation and a half, until Serpent Lake comes out with RTX graphics tiles from Nvidia, and then never another Xe product ever again.
If anything, you might have to pay to have them disposed of, they don't really have any meaningful used eBay market outside of the randos that want to do high end extreme local inference in their basement.
Also, as for RAMmageddon, the inference SBCs that all of the AI bros bought don't have DIMMs, they're not even the right chip: its all GDDR and LPDDR. The only DDR DIMMs being consumed are for regular non-inference machines that help run the business and service infrastructure behind the scenes.
I love how people say things like "extension spaghetti", as if all other non-standard APIs have the same problem: hardware gets new features that people want to use from that API, API gains extension to use that hardware feature.
CUDA is no different, in fact, often worse. Nvidia is bad at documenting which hardware does what things, and CUDA users often have to use third party tables to figure out what hardware can't do what and disappoint customers who unwisely invested into it.
Weird, since the most used open source inference engine is faster on Vulkan on platforms that offer multiple options, with the sole exception being Nvidia, due to poor Nvidia driver quality (which I am forced to assume is intentional, Nvidia wishes to maintain their moat after all).
Serpent Lake (and its siblings) cover both consumer desktop and laptop.
Arc's team was disproportionately effected by the layoffs. A lot of the major engineers that worked there changed their Linked in details to list Nvidia, AMD, etc.
As for DC and Workstation GPUs, they also seem to be canceled.
Sundaras aren't great, but are sufficient for this. Scarlett series is also good enough.
At 48khz, with a tone generator (not rando Youtube videos or anything), you should be able to clearly hear up to around 16khz (as in, can tell pitch of tone), and be able to tell a tone is being played at all up through 18khz, and hopefully up to 20khz.