Monday, August 18, 2008

Chip wars get interesting again

Intel's new graphics chip design is called Larrabee. The excellent Ars Technica site took a look and wrote this article:

Larrabee: Intel's biggest leap since the Pentium Pro

Prior to this, Intel has mainly done ho-hum graphics hardware for on-the-motherboard solutions. With Larrabbee, Intel is developing stand-alone high-performance graphics cards like the ones from nVidia and ATI (now owned by AMD).

http://www.google.com/search?q=intel+larrabee

Elsewhere, AMD's acquisition of ATI may finally be paying off:

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112441

It's a whole new graphics card architecture that has the folks who follow such things pretty excited.

It look as if computer graphics is about to take a giant, competitive leap forward.

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