[6] However, this percentage does not represent actual adoption as a number of these shipped units end up in systems with discrete graphics cards.

[7] Intel HD Graphics, featuring minimal power consumption that is important in laptops, was capable enough that PC manufacturers often stopped offering discrete graphics options in both low-end and high-end laptop lines, where reduced dimensions and low power consumption are important.

HD P4000 is featured on the Ivy Bridge E3 Xeon processors with the 12X5 v2 descriptor, and supports unbuffered ECC RAM.

In June 2013, Haswell CPUs were announced, with four tiers of integrated GPUs: The 128 MB of eDRAM in the Iris Pro GT3e is in the same package as the CPU, but on a separate die manufactured in a different process.

In November 2013, it was announced that Broadwell-K desktop processors (aimed at enthusiasts) would also carry Iris Pro Graphics.

New features: speed increases, support for 4K UHD "premium" (DRM encoded) streaming services, media engine with full hardware acceleration of 8- and 10-bit HEVC and VP9 decode.

[41][42] New features include Sampler Feedback,[43] Dual Queue Support,[43] DirectX12 View Instancing Tier2,[43] and AV1 8-bit and 10-bit fixed-function hardware decoding.

[50] Beginning with Sandy Bridge, the graphics processors include a form of digital copy protection and digital rights management (DRM) called Intel Insider, which allows decryption of protected media within the processor.

[51][52] Previously there was a similar technology called Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP).

Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT) was announced 1 January 2014 and introduced at the same time as Intel Iris Pro.

SR-IOV (Single Root IO Virtualization) is supported only on platforms with 11th Generation Intel® Core™ "G" Processors (products formerly known as Tiger Lake) or newer.

This leaves Rocket Lake (11th Gen Intel Processors) without support for GVT-g and/or SR-IOV.

[56] Started from 12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors, both desktop and laptop Intel CPUs have GVT-g and SR-IOV support.

The reason for this is that the chipsets only include two phase-locked loops (PLLs) for generating the pixel clocks timing the data being transferred to the displays.

[97] All GVT virtualization methods are supported since the Broadwell processor family with KVM[98] and Xen.