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Intel Likely Entering High-End GPU Market

by Chris Remo, Jan 24, 2007 9:23am PST
Related Topics – Hardware (PC only)

Making the rounds this week has been what appears to be confirmation of Intel entering the high-end GPU market dominated by NVIDIA and AMD-owned ATI. The news, which follows recent speculation, comes courtesy of Intel's own official jobs page, which outlines in fairly clear terms the company's new Visual Computing Group, which it claims is "aggressively positioned to advance the state of the art in graphics and other high-throughput workloads." The full blurb is as follows:

Intel's Visual Computing Group (VCG) has the mission to establish the future of computing for high-throughput applications. We are initially focused on developing advanced products based on a many-core architecture targeting high-end client platforms. We're aggressively positioned to advance the state of the art in graphics and other high-throughput workloads. Our vision is that the resulting ingredients and technology will extend to other platforms including mobile clients, servers, and embedded applications over time.
Intel currently dominates the integrated graphics market--and by extension has a dominant stake in the overall PC graphics market--but the VCG plan seems to be set on targeting high end products with "many-core architecture" before later expanding to other less intensive platforms and embedded products. This marks Intel's first full-fledged entry into the discrete GPU market since its attempts after acquiring graphics company Real3D. There is no publicly revealed time frame for the project at this point. (Thanks Beyond3D for the find.)


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    By: Amadan x
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    I don't see anyone talking about this, but consider that the industry is going to move to on-die graphics (your GPU will be 1+ cores on your processor). This is very likely a part of that movement.

    This may be intel developing cards to build a GPU skill base that can be rolled into the CPU as a "graphics core" on your main processor. Or maybe they aren't going to develop cards at all, and jump straight to graphics on-die with the CPU. Video on the same die as the processing cores ... talk about bandwidth. Of course, you will lose the ability to upgrade video separately from graphics.
    Jan 24, 2007 7:36pm PST
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    By: Skyburst101 x
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    I see another monopoly/antitrust case against intel...doesn't help that they're already under investigation in 3 different continents...

    They're more or less dominating in the CPU sector...anti trust case there.

    Dominant in integrated graphics(granted...they suck, but still highest market share)

    and now into descrete graphics...

    well see...they're trying to come into the game a bit late. Nvidia would be the better choice for them, but I don't like the idea of Nvidia going bye bye...because Intel doesn't like other companies manufacturing their stuff, and so Nvidia cards wont run on AMD machines, and all that other stuff...chipsets for AMD gone, the list goes on...the consumer gets screwed in the end because inter-component compatibility dies.
    Jan 24, 2007 2:16pm PST