Intel Likely Entering High-End GPU Market
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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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...