Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture to feature up to 2 GPUs on 1 monolithic die

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Anyways back on topic, I think it's a bit strange for Intel to make this move. For office and general use, a single IGP from any company is fine.

what i find stranger that no one here has noticed is that a quadcore will have an igp. this sounds like a bottleneck to me. the goal of igp's are to display windows and save money but it doesnt belong on a high end chip.

my speculation is that they have two gpu's on die so at idle they can turn one off for better idle power.