Intel Company plan to go back to the market of discrete graphics, and expects to significantly accelerate the integrated graphics solutions in 2008.
Intel representatives said that the generation of Nehalem processors with integrated graphic core will accelerate the graphics only. Perhaps specific tasks like scientific calculations will be assigned to special classes boosters like Larrabee, although the first generation of these solutions will work primarily with graphics acceleration. Recently intel purchased Neoptica company .
The new acquisition will allow Intel company to get its arsenal of advanced software tools, enhancing the efficiency of interaction of central processors and graphics chips. Those software will allow game developers to better use parallelism at the level of data and tasks, and better distribute the load between the processor and video chip. After all, the first Intel announced multi-processors will improve performance in today's games.
Neoptica will develop software tools that enable non-traditional task to speed up graphics chips.