Blowout capital expenditures from Amazon and reports of CPU price hikes sent Intel back toward its yearly highs.

Intel Arc GPU owners have found a workaround to enable XeSS 3 frame generation early, ahead of Intel’s official rollout later this month.

Among Wall Street analysts who cover Intel, bulls are in the minority. But that group of optimists got a little larger earlier this week when Seaport Research's Jay Goldberg upgraded the stock to buy.

Intel Arc users are enabling XeSS 3 on unsupported GPUs, achieving up to triple FPS despite no official driver support yet.