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Proof that Intel plans to make GPUs to compete with ATI and NVIDIA

arstechnica.com — In a recent update to their careers page, Intel has pulled back the curtain a little bit more on what is currently one of the worst kept secrets in the tech industry. I think the most interesting question that this posting raises is, what took Intel so long?

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 24, 2007

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  • bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30I always welcome competition. NVIDIA has my backing thus far, unless I'm capturing video. It's surely not an easy market to enter; chipset quality has nowhere to go but up. It seems everyone's getting w/ the program: China's manufacturing their own processors and adapting the Linux kernel to run on them. The more competitors, the merrier for us.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28It's called newegg.
  • jlebrech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Opensource drivers?!?!
  • Sphonix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23You nearly took the words out of my mouth, competition is good (and two dominating companies is not), and Intel is pretty solid and has a large cash-empire behind it. They could probably create some nice systems that pair up with Intel processor to increase performance. Plus I'd like to see the new "Intel PowerForceX 8905 SP Platnum Ed.". Silly names.
  • meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20That's what I'm hoping for. So far, Intel has done a really good job with helping the community make good open source drivers. I really really hope it stays that way, and they get some more powerful cards/chipsets to compete with ATI/NVIDIA. See: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Intel's integrated graphics sucks for gamers, and everyone knows it. But this should be the expectation when you get something that's basically free. Integrated graphics fills a niche where computer users only surf the net, read e-mail, and play Sims. Now, when Intel does a real GPU and they are hiring in Oregon where their newest CPU fab technology is and their largest competitor just bought a GPU company, I would expect to see some nice results very quickly.
  • soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@sirloin

    What the hell are you talking about? Intel's GMA X3000 already has hardware T&L, pixel and vertex shaders. However, they released this chipset before they even had the drivers for it ready, and even the current drivers suck. They're still working on them, I believe.

    Anyhow, as long as Intel can actually make decent drivers for their real GPUs, I'd love to see more competition. Prices will definitely drop with a third party in the video card market.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You write on a second grade reading level, and fail to realize that Intel chipsets are the most common chipsets on the market. Dell, Lenovo, Gateway, HP, they all use Intel's virtually stock solution (Intel provides Reference Platforms for their chipsets), then mask off some of the board and paint their own logos on it. It saves them work, and Intel's already done all the designing/testing for them. Even Apple uses Intel's chipsets, admittedly they do their own board design, however. Oh, and Intel's #1 in the video graphics market, even with their "owned" chipsets. Sadly, nVidia only makes chipsets for AMD (which is a shame all on itself now that AMD backstabbed that partnership), and ATi's days of making chipsets for Intel are numbered (AMD making Intel chipsets?). The market very effectively opened up to Intel running away with the cheese.
  • sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@soogy
    cool about the new chip.. but the older intel crap has been well crap.. this is what i am talking about
    http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-011910.htm
    "All other Intel® graphics products do not have hardware support for T&L. In most games, transform and lighting calculations can be performed on the processor with acceptable performance. A small number of games that specifically check for hardware T&L support may fail to run."

    but thanks for digging me down..
    I still say their graphics up until now has sucked extremly. That is what the hell i am talking about.
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I hope raytracing gets a shot at real time videogaming in the near future. If an article, that was digged too long ago, is right then with quad core duos the computing power should be there to make raytracing a viable option.
  • brasso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Competition is always favorable, good luck Intel!
  • Gerz1219, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5High performance package for $600?

    If you think Intel's entry is going to drive down prices, you don't know much about the GPU market. This is an enthusiast's market in which performance carries a premium. If Intel can manage to come close to the performance of ATI/NVidia, who've been doing this for a decade, then they won't be able to undercut much on price without taking billions in losses. They might beat them at the low-end, but then they already have the IGP market sewn up.
  • simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This isn't a utopia, educate yourself or go Dell. (I wouldn't recommend Dell unless you don't care to learn about computers)

    And as above, newegg.com :)
  • blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4iDont'WannaGetPunched!
  • elev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Will they call it the i7400?
  • Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I walked right into that one..
  • turbodigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@simpleid

    I think dell's xps is actually a decent gaming rig...but very overpriced. And who wants to show up to a lan party with a huge DELL on the side of your case anyway? I think part of having a gaming pc is customizing it.
  • meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@Dumbledorito

    Bear watching??? http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Bear_Watching.htm
  • metalhead3767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hopefully this will stop the GPU price fixing.
  • cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually NVidia has had chipsets available for Intel since early 2006, and had reference boards supporting Core CPUs out for at least half a year now.
  • elev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did the i740 really flop? It was the most powerful dinosaur simulator card on the market. You could both watch Raptors stalk you and be frustrated by your pasty floppy arm, all at the most playable frame rates in the market! Failure, I don't think so!
    But really, wasn't it meant as a demo for what AGP was capable of? Until the i740 there really wasn't much performance difference between PCI and AGP variants of the same chipsets. The i740 changed that.
  • sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7I hope they are better than the crappy video that normally comes with their multimedia boxes.. NO T&L?!???great for video, has trouble playing games 2 years old.
  • Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2First person to respond with "iDon'tKnow" gets punched.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Why buy another, specialist video company when you already are a video company, and you already ship the biggest number of graphics chipsets in the current market? Furthermore, Intel already bought PowerVR for their video solutions.

    Besides, it'd never make it past the SEC, not after AMD bought ATi. Competition is a good thing in the market place: drives down prices, drives up innovation. Let's make Intel get off their lazy asses and build chips that actually perform well.
  • 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Could this have anything to do with helping Microsoft further it's lockdown on user hardware via its new media OS, Vista? I'm sticking with Linux/XP. The amount of control that Microsoft will have over your machine with Vista is scary.
  • ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Great...Intel has some VaporWare Kick-Ass Graphics Card in the works. Wake me up when we have benchmarks, so we can compare how it performs in comparison to Nvidia and ATI.
  • polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Why not just buy nVidia?
  • userax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Aw man. And here I was having fun trying to overclock my intel extreme to match the x1900..
  • ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Well its nice to see Intel try to step up to the plate. The GMA 950 cards now found in many laptops stink and are far slower than video cards made available for laptops more than 2-3 years ago.
  • kraemer007, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Wait, is this the same intel that gave up on LCOS panels that would take over the HDTV market?
    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041021-4340.html

    The same Intel that ate up Real3d inc, and then laid everybody off when the i740 flopped?

    Grab your lawnchair for a good show while history repeats itself.
  • Catch_ME, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Intel has always dominated the Integrated video market. This may change when it comes to marketshare because AMD now owns ATI.

    Thats if AMD decides to make there own chipsets besides the ones that ATI owns.
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Hear, hear. As long as they don't start making their architecture designed to beat benchmark tests as opposed to actual performance again. They've pulled back from that crap, but they bear watching...
  • jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2But will it have the Vista Virus? er....AACS?
  • compuwarescc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2(AMD and nVidia)
  • simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -16/+10I used to be bias for AMD and ATI, I'm slowly re-evaluating products on both sides and find myself leaning Intel/ATI, but slowly Nvidea... not at Nvidea yet, if ATI's card can't compete with the 8800GTX I'll have to go Nvidea for the first time in .... many years.

    I'm so impressed with the Core2Duo line of processors, I find it incredibly hard to believe AMD can compete with such a quality product at similar prices.

    If you're like me you probably bought a $200ish C2D and are running over 3ghz stable on air! Amazing! Now -that- is what you call being competitive. Now if Intel can destroy AMD/ATI/Nvidea with that same kind of performance/price, they have me. Otherwise we'll see.

    Intel is out for blood this year.
  • zeras, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Intel is cheap when it comes to GPU Mobo-Chipsets,
    They are the worst, of all the GPU Mono-Chipset makers.
    ATi and Nvidia owns Intel soo bad it's just sad, the only company
    that I know that still has Intel chipsets in there mother borad is Dell,
    the crappy one, don't I mean all dells, lol not all Dells are crappy, some are.
  • Alfdog, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1The don't really have to beat ATI or NVIDIA, they just need to come up with some affordable (cheap) innovative GPU parts that can be used in CE devices which will hopefully lead to some new products for all of us.
  • g3r4, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2How nice would it be to have a one stop source for a Motherboard, CPU, and GPU? One number to call for tech support too. (If you're in to the sort of thing)

    Now all they have to do (if they don't already in some cases) is produce RAM, Integrated Liquid Cooling in Motherboards (Or something to compete) and add custom options.

    "Hi, I'd like to buy a new... everything"
    "Excellent, sir. What will you be doing with this system?"
    "Gaming, mostly"
    "Ahh, well we have a high performance package available for $600 that includes a 3Ghz Processor with the option to add an additional processot later, 2GB RAM, Your new motherboard, 512MB GPU also with the option to add an additonal later. You can add a case if don't already have one, with a variety of colors and models of course, along with the rest of... everything. HDD's, Optical Drives, Wireless Adaptors, USB Hubs, you name it, we got it."

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