Thursday, June 7th 2007
Computex 2007: Intel to Enter Discrete Graphics Card Market in 2008
Sources from multiple graphics card vendors have confirmed that Intel has approached them to lay down plans to enter the discrete graphics card market for desktop PCs. The new products from Intel would be positioned as direct competitors to AMD's ATI Radeon and NVIDIA's GeForce series of cards. The processor giant will aim for the mid-range market in the initial stages with pricing targeted around US$300. In order to be competitive, the cards will need to match the features of products from AMD and NVIDIA such as support for DirectX 10 and equivalent memory densities. Whether or not Intel will implement a technology to support multi-card configurations similar to SLI and Crossfire is unknown at this stage but it is a possibility as most of Intel's mid-range and high-end chipsets support multiple PCI Express slots already. Intel is scheduled to deliver a more complete roadmap and specifications in the fourth quarter of this year, with expected launch of the new products around the second quarter of 2008.
Source:
DigiTimes
12 Comments on Computex 2007: Intel to Enter Discrete Graphics Card Market in 2008
i tend more to believe that intel would block their chipsets to ait cards as soons as they have they're own cards
competition is good!
if intel is able to come up with something that is on par with ati/amd and nvidias offerings it should help to finally bring down the extortionate prices graphics cards are at atm.
yay for competition
To my knowledge, CPUs are made up of millions of transistors which is why we have all that "65nm" regarding how close the electrical circuits are to each other.
Wouldnt that sort of graphics waste much needed space on the CPU?
Integrated graphics on the mobo is good enough to negate the need for this. You know what would be more random than Intel joining the market? Microsoft in the video card market :D