Intel Releases Details Of Upcoming Graphics Chip
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) on Monday released technical details of a new line of graphics processors that would take on market leaders Nvidia and the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices.
Intel plans to present details of the chip design, code-named Larrabee, Aug. 12 at the SIGGRAPH industry conference in Los Angeles. In the meantime, Intel has made the paper available online through the Association of Computing Machinery's portal.
The first Larrabee chips will be add-on graphics accelerators in PCs used mostly by gamers. Called graphics processing units, or GPUs, the chips are expected at the end of 2009 or early 2010. In time, Intel plans to adapt Larrabee to more workloads, such as video processing, medical imaging, scientific research, oil and gas exploration, and other high-performance computing tasks.
