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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: Pugnate on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 03:50:34 AM

Title: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: Pugnate on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 03:50:34 AM

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17898

No wonder they bought Project Offset! This is pretty cool, as competition is always a good thing.

What I like is their commitment to improving integrated graphics. Epic should be happy.

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"What we've said, and what the Intel commitment is, is that integrated graphics will be upgraded substantially over '08, '09, '10. We'll do a 10x improvement in the integrated graphics we'll deliver to the market [over that period]."

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 10:20:57 AM

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"as graphics moves away from a traditional polygon model to light physics, global illumination...

I'll believe it when I see it.  I remember last time the extinction of polygons was predicted.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 01:37:11 PM

Interesting.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: Quemaqua on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 08:25:08 PM

Quote from: Cobra951 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 10:20:57 AM

I'll believe it when I see it.  I remember last time the extinction of polygons was predicted.

Yeah, I've read some interesting speculations on that point and most people think Intel is full of shit.  Time will tell.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: Pugnate on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 10:05:47 PM

Yup of course. A lot of this is marketing fluff. I am still hopeful.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: scottws on Thursday, March 20, 2008, 05:26:53 AM

This is good news for the most part.  It's probably also the beginning of a slow death for AMD/ATi unless they can somehow right their ship.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: Pugnate on Thursday, March 20, 2008, 08:29:05 AM

Rumor has it that they might be purchased by Nvidia, who may have to do so to survive.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: scottws on Saturday, March 22, 2008, 11:48:00 AM

Wow that'd be interesting.  But stranger things have happened.

Title: Re: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.
Post by: MysterD on Saturday, March 22, 2008, 02:13:22 PM

Wow, that'd be crazy...