Intel puts beef into designing discrete graphics chip

A VARIOUS industry sources confirmed to me that Intel is getting serious about discreet graphics, indiscreetly. The company wants to enter the discrete graphics marked and and I have also learned that the massive giant has dedicated many, many engineers to work on a new discrete graphic core.

Some of these chaps have Nvidia or ATI backgrounds and at the same time we can confirm this story. Actually it is kind of a fight between Intel and Nvidia, and not, for once, a fight between AMD and Intel.

Intel has problems on the graphics front and that is, as ATI insiders told us only a few weeks ago, there is a restricted number of people with the know how. Intel may not be able to conquer this plain fact by, for example, just hiring, hiring and hiring again.

However, I believe that Intel might well become a serious competitor to both Nvidia and ATI. This will put Nvidia is an extremely difficult position because of Chipzilla does its own discrete graphics chip, it won't need Graphzilla.

One of our readers suggested that Nvidia might reach out to buy Via and in that case we would got three powerhouses that are able to build graphic cards and CPUs at the same time. Via, of course, has rights to certain X86 patents. µ

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