AMD now provides updates for Intel Kaby Lake-G

Intel's Kaby Lake-G was an interesting experiment. This unique 14nm SoC from Intel combined a Kaby Lake processor with AMD Vega integrated graphics. Unfortunately, the chip didn't see a whole lot of graphics driver updates. Tom's Hardware writes that after 12 months of no updates, Intel is now allowing customers to use AMD's mainline Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers. Kaby Lake-G was launched in 2017 and received its last Intel-validated graphics driver update in February 2019.

Twelve months after the last driver update, Intel quietly issued a new 'driver download' that went unnoticed, but it is merely a PDF that instructs users to head over to an AMD download portal for Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics drivers. The new drivers consist of AMD's mainline Adrenalin 2020 drivers, meaning that Hades Canyon NUC customers can install AMD's latest drivers, thus receiving important performance boosts for new games and the other advantages that come along with new drivers.

The move may seem small, but Intel effectively left its Hades Canyon customers stranded without up-to-date support for a year. That isn't a good look for a company that asks its customers to adopt radical new technologies on a fairly regular basis.