Intel Entering Discrete Graphics market. Around $300 Range

[EvlUndrWareNome]

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?new...VzaWFzdCwsLDE=

Intel Entering Discrete Graphics Card Market in 08

DigiTimes, citing multiple sources in the graphics card industry, says that Intel will enter the discrete graphics card market by 2008.

At this stage all plans are still rather vague, according to the sources, with Intel scheduled to deliver a more complete roadmap and specifications in the fourth quarter of this year. However, according to most of the sources, Intel will aim for the mid-range market in the initial stages with pricing targeted around US$300.

Computex News:
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20070606VL207.html

Competition!!! Wooot!

expect to see first offerings in Q2 08'

[lowfat]

nice Can always use more choices and competition.

[uOpt]

Finally cards with OpenSource drivers.

About time.

[Cobalt]

Hopefully this has absolutely no connection to the architecture in their intergrated chips.

[mcflurry4321]

Nice! More competition == lower prices all around, so I'm happy

[Mikesnav]

Wewt

[CBONE]

I hope the Intel parts will have the performance to cause a price war.

That and Intel knows how to bundle some cheap/free swag for resellers. AMD could take some lessons from them. Where is the greedily-rubs-hands-together-at-the-prospect-of-cheap-parts emoticon?

[DeathReborn]

Hopefully this has absolutely no connection to the architecture in their intergrated chips.

Yea, they can't seem to get even several years old tech in there & they botch drivers like nobody's business. I will most certainly not be buying any Intel IGP/GPU again until they can prove that they've finally caught up with nVidia/AMD in both features & driver support.

I am interested to see if they can get the performance out of the chip in DirectX & OGL or if they add another API to the mix.

[jbizzler]

Intel's had Crossfire for a while; we're just starting to see proof of SLI liscensing. Now they're going to have their own. HURRAH! I hope it makes as big of a splash as Core 2. Now NVIDIA just needs an x86 liscense, and we'll have a triple CPU/Mobo/GPU war, which can only be good for us consumers.

[[XC] Teroedni]

Im looking forward to 2008

[nn_step]

more competition the better

[Ubermann]

If intel hire people with high knowledge about gpu designs im sure they they will pretty much wipe out anything out there.

I like Intel all sudden when they finally started doing something good with all their money.

[DilTech]

I hope intel comes with something major. It'd be nice to see a major shake-up in the GPU market as it'll force nvidia and ati to drop prices.

[iddqd]

Idk, neither company charges much per GPU. Only barely anything on top of what TSMC wants; except for the highest binned chips - although the demand on those (however miniscule) is still greater than the virtually nonexistent supply; people will continue paying $600+ for the cards. Although the actual GPU will only be a about $150 or so.

GDDR3/4 memory costs at least as much, or more if you get crazy amounts like 768mb/1gb.

[Shintai]

Idk, neither company charges much per GPU. Only barely anything on top of what TSMC wants; except for the highest binned chips - although the demand on those (however miniscule) is still greater than the virtually nonexistent supply; people will continue paying $600+ for the cards. Although the actual GPU will only be a about $150 or so.

GDDR3/4 memory costs at least as much, or more if you get crazy amounts like 768mb/1gb.

I´m sure nVidia earns quite ok, with a 3billion revenue and 500million profit. Thats a pretty big profit for such a company. And thats why Intel is interested.

[Kaze06]

I'm still waiting for Google to enter the video card market.

[xsbb]

Everyone wants a piece of the action. 2008 is going to be a good year.

[perkam]

"Ladies and gentlemen...

Introducing !! The GMA 9000 !!! 30 FPS IN ALL YOUR GAMES at 1280x1024 !!!

For Only $250 !! "

Perkam

[rozzyroz]

from inital rumors, it has been said that intel stated this will be 16x the speed of the current g80. ill do some digging around to confirm that, but i do remember that statement.

here is one: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4605

[[XC] hipno650]

from inital rumors, it has been said that intel stated this will be 16x the speed of the current g80. ill do some digging around to confirm that, but i do remember that statement.

here is one: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4605

if thats true i doubt that a company with little experience in the high end of graphics can come along and blow every thing else away by 16x but that would be nice.

more competition!!!

[Envydia007]

If its performance is at par with NV or ATi, why not

[p8ntslinger676]

"Ladies and gentlemen...

Introducing !! The GMA 9000 !!! 30 FPS IN ALL YOUR GAMES at 1280x1024 !!!

For Only $250 !! "

Perkam

lol, im guessing that little talk intel had with nvidia a while ago was about intel getting help with gpu architectures seeing as all of their integrated crapfics blew ass

[Sentential]

Looks like karma is coming to bite nvidia in the ass. They shoulda chummed up with Intel when they had the chance... now they're in trouble if Intel is serious about going into high-end GPUs.

Despite their incompitence they have tons of cash to throw at projects... just look at Conroe.

[clayton]

Yeah too bad they aren't interested in boosting up intergrated graphics' performance right now. It'll be a blast to put it in a true mini PC which I've been dreaming for such a long time. : * (
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[CBONE]

I can't wait to see what happens when Intel throws their weight behind a push into the discrete graphics realm for real and puts the billions to use. I hope this happens sooner rather than later!