Intel's rumored graphics chip a no-show
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(InfoWorld) - One of the biggest rumors to come out of Computex this week is that Intel is developing a new high-end graphics processor, which it will begin sampling to graphics cards makers in Taiwan in the next year or two. Graphics card makers at the show said they've seen no signs of it, however. The rumor follows reports of Intel hiring more graphics chip engineers, and speculation that Intel will have to answer Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD's)Â purchase of GPU maker ATI TechnologiesÂ last year. AMD is developing a family of microprocessors with graphics built in,Â called Fusion. Some also speculate that Intel will need to buy a graphics processor company to bolster its expertise in GPUs. Intel already makes graphics cores, but they are generally used in chip sets for PCs aimed at users who are not looking for high end graphics. In fact, Intel is the world's largest graphics chip maker, but it has never gone after the high-end segment of the business, which has long been dominated by NvidiaÂ and ATI. The only major announcement Intel has made recently about graphics is building the function intoÂ a future multicore chip code-named Larrabee. The chip, which will pack dozens of x86 microprocessors onto a single piece of silicon, is under development. The company may eventually take a swing at the high-end GPU business, but several graphics card makers at Computex say they've seen no sign of such a move yet. "There have been rumors of an Intel GPU for a long time. I haven't seen anything like it yet," said Andy Wu, project engineer in the multimedia division at Micro-Star International, one of Taiwan's largest graphics card makers. "It would be big news if it were true, but it's not real," said Andrew Wei, graphics product manager at Foxconn Technology Group, another graphics card maker. An engineer at Asustek Computer, Taiwan's largest motherboard maker and a major graphics card developer, also denied the existence of an Intel GPU or any hearsay that one might be coming anytime soon. Grace Wang, regional marketing manager for Intel's Asia Pacific platform component group, said Larrabee is the only major graphics project Intel has announced recently, and declined to comment on any other product plans. Intel held 38.7 percent of the graphics chip market at the end of the first quarter, followed by Nvidia with 28.5 percent and AMD with 21.9 percent, according to Jon Peddie Research. Â
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Intel won't release a 4-GHz version of its flagship Pentium 4 product, having decided instead to realign its engineers around the company's new design priorities, an Intel spokesman said today.
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Speculation that Intel is preparing to announce an acquisition of graphics chipmaker Nvidia surfaced again on Wednesday, pushing Nvidia's stock up over 10 percent before it began to fall again Thursday morning. Analysts said an announcement was impending, but it never happened.
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Bigger than R580 despite smaller fabrication process? AMD's anticipated upcoming ATI-branded, DirectX 10-supporting graphics chip, the R600, appears to have made an unscheduled and ahead-of-time stop on the web, revealing itself to be a rather larger part than its predecessor, the R580.â¦
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The world&#39;s No. 1 chipmaker Intel says that it will not make the 4-gigahertz version of its Pentium 4 PC processor. Intel will release another chip that has fewer gigahertz.
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Intel Corp.  is an unlikely  suitor for chip maker Nvidia Corp. , analysts said on  Thursday, although a source familiar with the situation noted  takeover interest in Nvidia from various players in its sector.
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Intel's new laptop dual-core chips don't match their desktop siblings' star performance.
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MCP73 to be followed by DirectX 10-capable MCP79, apparently Analyst claims that Nvidia is close to releasing low-cost chipsets targeting Intel processors gained weight this week when Far Eastern moles detailed the single-chip products' - said to be codenamed 'MCP73' and 'MCP79' - specifications.â¦
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Both GPUs built on TSMC's 110nm process, reportedly
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One of the biggest rumors to come out of the Computex tech show this week is that Intel is developing a new high-end graphics processor.
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Big Blue will use AMD's chip in a high-performance server but isn't yet planning a general-purpose Opteron system.
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U.S. consumers don't want to pay for low-power, high-performance chip.
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Intel users will be able to use nVidia graphics hardware in the future after a surprise announcement from the two companies. The deal will be welcomed by users who will be able to use nVidia&#39;s nForce platform
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Intel Corp., the world&#39;s largest maker of computer chips and a major employer in Folsom, has reportedly dropped plans to develop a chip for projection TVs, the latest in a series of product shifts by the Santa Clara company.
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In another embarrassing about-face, No. 1 chipmaker Intel (INTC) told customers Thursday that it will not make a much-touted 4-gigahertz version of its Pentium 4 PC processor.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. on Tuesday provided a few more details about future plans for its enterprise server processors, but the company maintained its silence on its plans for an upcoming dual-core Xeon processor, which it has promised as the next major follow-up to the Nocona chip it launched in August.
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With perhaps a month to go before launch, the next big computer chip remains a bit of a mystery, and so every shift in strategy by longtime rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices is being teased for hints of the battle to come.