interesting news.....

[ncage]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070606VL207.html

 

[IlllI]

well the only thing is, people have been predicting that they would 'next year' for a few years now.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: clandren
well the only thing is, people have been predicting that they would 'next year' for a few years now.

Pretty much, unless they want to utterly humiliate AMD by sending them to third place in the discrete graphics market. (Intel probably could if they dump enough resources into it)

 

[mruffin75]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: clandren
well the only thing is, people have been predicting that they would 'next year' for a few years now.

Pretty much, unless they want to utterly humiliate AMD by sending them to third place in the discrete graphics market. (Intel probably could if they dump enough resources into it)

If their integrated graphics efforts are anything to go by.. I don't think AMD or Nvidia have anything to worry about...

And they've had discrete graphics cards before..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740

And that was horrible..

 

[emilyek]

Forget their integrated. Think what they could do with all their resources. It's probably just not a big enough market, though. :/

 

[lopri]

Is CSI (Intel's version of HyperTransport) going to be open-standard? Or proprietary? (i.e. pay for the license) If the latter, we may have console-like PCs in a distant future.

 

[ncage]

Well i guess i did not expect this. I would have expected them to do something like buy nvidia or something like that. I guess i didn't expect them to start at ground zero (which they really are because their integrated video is not that great). Im sure they have enough money and resources to put towards it so then can make a dent though and i think intel knows in the future everything will be a combination of general cpu work like what the current processors can do and highly paralized stuff which is what graphic cards are great at. This will be interesting to find out what happens.

ncage

 

[aka1nas]

IIRC, they bought a fabless GPU design company late last year, so they probably have some new IP to work off of.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: mruffin75

If their integrated graphics efforts are anything to go by.. I don't think AMD or Nvidia have anything to worry about...

And they've had discrete graphics cards before..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740

And that was horrible..

i remember those.. but if i recall, but i think they were just rebadged video cards from some other company. though i could be wrong since that was like back around 96 or 97-ish

 

[Creig]

Nope, the i740 was all Intel. I remember when they came out.










I'm getting old.

 

[sandorski]

Intel undoubtedly has the Cash and Resources to compete in the Graphics market, but do they have the Talent? Nvidia and ATI/AMD didn't just pop out of nowhere, but took many years and Hardware Generations to get to where they're at today. I doubt Intel could be competitive, at least on the highend, for many years.

 

[RedBeard]

Originally posted by: clandren

i remember those.. but if i recall, but i think they were just rebadged video cards from some other company. though i could be wrong since that was like back around 96 or 97-ish

Yeah, intel had bought out Real3D

WiKi

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Intel undoubtedly has the Cash and Resources to compete in the Graphics market, but do they have the Talent? Nvidia and ATI/AMD didn't just pop out of nowhere, but took many years and Hardware Generations to get to where they're at today. I doubt Intel could be competitive, at least on the highend, for many years.

they're just going to get tighter with nvidia, who won't sell to intel anyway. intels larrabee is a collaboration with nv, and rumor has it they'll announce an even tighter "alliance" at the end of june.

 

[Janooo]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Intel undoubtedly has the Cash and Resources to compete in the Graphics market, but do they have the Talent? Nvidia and ATI/AMD didn't just pop out of nowhere, but took many years and Hardware Generations to get to where they're at today. I doubt Intel could be competitive, at least on the highend, for many years.

Don't worry. If they want they'll buy the talent! I am sure some NV and ATI engineers wouldn't say no to nice money.

 

[Don66]

Originally posted by: Creig
Nope, the i740 was all Intel. I remember when they came out.










I'm getting old.

Yeah so do I:beer:



Yeah so am I:music:

 

[evolucion8]

Jumm, I wonder which name Intel will use for their line of GPU. May be Intel Ultra Extreme Visual Graphics 800, or Intel Real3D X18800GTXT or X8800XTGTS lol

 

[Borealis7]

i can imagine an Intel 3000AMDSUX.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Doesn't Intel already own nVidia?

 

[Cheex]

Just imagine a GPU based on the Core 2 Architecture!!!

 

[Nathelion]

...yeah I can and it would suck b*llz.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Doesn't Intel already own nVidia?

no

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Cheex
Just imagine a GPU based on the Core 2 Architecture!!!

It would completely fail because a CPU =/= GPU.

And if intel owned or bought nVIDIA, that would be THE BIGGEST NEWS in this industry ever. Its like hell freezing over.. .twice.

 

[Cheex]

Okay fine. Not necessarily the same architecture but something as efficient in a GPU.....