Topic: Intel making some changes, entering the GPU market.

[Pugnate]

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.

"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]."

[Cobra951]

"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.

[MysterD]

Interesting.

[Quemaqua]

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.

[Pugnate]

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

[scottws]

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.

[Pugnate]

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

[scottws]

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

[MysterD]

Wow, that'd be crazy...