Integrated
graphics processor
The worst
thing that could happen to computer graphics is undoubtedly Intel’s integrated
graphics core. If current IGPs from Intel were better, you would have far more games with
much better graphics, simply because most of PCs in the world have Intel
integrated inside.
Since
graphics are becoming more and more important Intel has finally realized that it
has to come out with products such as Larrabee and try to fight Nvidia and ATI in
their own market, and with this in mind, Intel’s Larrabee graphics core will find its
way to IGP.
This is
something we got confirmed, but since Larrabee is still under development we
cannot give you any date but we can only speculate it's realistic that Intel
should not have this project finished by at least early 2011.
Larrabee reportedly has TDP issues, as its very tough to make a GPU and keep it
under desired Thermal Design Power and TDP is very important part of Integrated
Graphics Processor design, and therefore Larrabee IGP has still many miles to
go, but at least it's in the plans.
