when is the: Intel entering high end gpu market post coming?

[IfReborn]

you know with the way things are shaping up this is bound to happen. and with there money and know how we as consumers may be some great products

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: IfReborn
you know with the way things are shaping up this is bound to happen. and with there money and know how we as consumers may be some great products

They have begun to acquire small graphic companies already.

 

[apoppin]

right now ... if you like

Intel entering high end gpu market post

probably wrong . . . but you never know

in related weird-but-true news, M$ is entering the CPU business

Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: apoppin
right now ... if you like

Intel entering high end gpu market post

probably wrong . . . but you never know

in related weird-but-true news, M$ is entering the CPU business

Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips

can you quote the article? I have no NYTimes account.

 

[apoppin]

Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: October 19, 2006

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 16 ? For more than two decades, Microsoft?s software and Intel?s processors were so wedded that the pairing came to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip design: its own labs.

The design effort will initially be split between research labs at the company?s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and its Silicon Valley campus here. Tentatively named the Computer Architecture Group, the project underscores sweeping changes in the industry.

One reason for the effort is that Microsoft needs to begin thinking about the next-generation design of its Xbox game console, said Charles P. Thacker, a veteran engineer and Microsoft engineer who will head the Silicon Valley group. Voice recognition may also be an area where the research could play a significant role.
. . .

Microsoft is exploring hardware design now in part because of a new set of tools that will make it possible to test ideas quickly, he said. The researchers will employ a system designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, that makes it possible to reconfigure computer designs without the cost of making finished chips.

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