Intel Likely Entering High-End GPU Market

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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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    January 24, 2007 9:36 AM

    I wonder if a common graphics platform is possible - where you can simply pop in a new graphics chip into the main PCB when you want an upgrade...

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      January 24, 2007 9:37 AM

      you do that already by replacing the card? the only difference is just a chip and not a card.

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