heave a sigh of relief, if intel gets its IGP right; thats the end of nvidia and amd chipsets. and we'd end up paying monstrous amounts for intel's igp.

This must be some secret partnership with nvidia, because it's they that are known to have broken hardware video acceleration, for many generations.
So I'm going to venture a guess and expect the new intel chipsets to also have a broken IDE interface then eh ;)

I encourage more of you to be very harshly critical of Intel's current IGPs.. because I would enjoy quite a bit seeing your jaws drop (and maybe eat a little crow) when or if Larrabee comes along and totally doesn't suck.

I heard if you buy a 40$ graphic card (hd3400 / 8400gs) these days, they'll play HD for you... and some games too and if you play around a bit, you can get pretty good drivers.

What's the big deal spending 40$ on a graphic card when your spending hundreds on a monitor and blu-ray/hd-dvd drive?

If they cant get acceleerated video playback right how the hell are they gonna kill nvidia with larabee?

makes you wonder doesnt it.

Can anyone say Phenom. I guess AMD is not the only one with Die problems.

I've been spec'ing out a system with this chipset. If it bombs I might have to go 780G + 4850e.

Hah, just imagine the mess that Larrabee will be, driver wise. A whole new architecture to get wrong. At least G45's graphics may now work - 2 years after the basic design was released!

Intel used to have such solid chipsets as well. GPUs that have more than basic functionality seems to have really messed them up.

If you want a media PC, start looking at the AMD solutions (or VIA even), at least it works, and the video quality always gets top scores.

Strike seven for Intel graphics. Can anyone explain how on earth Intel can go from one year failing on integrated chipsets with Vista problems (915/945), lousy compatibility (945/G33), and awful performance (G965/G35) to a competitive discrete graphics card?

Heh, so much for (un)Intel(ligent) comming out with a legitimate IGP. A bit of light on the horizon for DAAMIT, although considering how insignificant a market this is aimed at, not a very bright light. Broken or not, uIntel will still sell to uninformed customers. Hopefully the 20-30% of the educated consumers will help pull AMD out of hell. Good luck with that..

Oh nVidia will be laughing at the expense of this little piece of news should it be true.