INTEL DETAILS FIRST STAND-ALONE GRAPHICS CHIP

San Francisco, August 4, 2008
The Economic Times

Intel Corp has disclosed the most details yet of a next-generation microchip architecture that will first take direct aim at the graphics semiconductor market and could pack some 100 electronic brains into a single microprocessor. Code-named Larrabee, the microarchitecture - the basic blueprint of a computer chip - will result in processors as soon as 2009.

The design is Intel's first foray into the stand-alone graphics chip market. Intel currently provides so-called integrated graphics chipsets to PC makers, which are not as powerful as discrete graphics microchips. Larrabee would broaden the competition in the quickly growing and profitable discrete graphics market, now dominated by Advanced Micro Devices Inc's ATI division and Nvidia Corp.