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Adaptive Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
This article introduces a new implementation of the effect called adaptive screen space ambient occlusion (ASSAO), which is specially designed to scale from low-power devices and scenarios up to high-end desktops at high resolutions, all under one implementation with a uniform look, settings, and quality that is equal to the industry standard.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/adaptive-screen-space-ambient-occlusion
Getting UE4 to 60FPS in Disc Jam
This article, written by Jay from High Horse Entertainment, a two-man team based out of Los Angeles, explains the hoops they jumped through to make sure there futuristic sports game ran at 60FPS on Intel® Graphics; a key target for them given the current hardware statistics from Unity show ~40% of machines play using GPUs from Intel