Intel’s Line of Graphics Chips Could Have Broader Uses
But Anwar Ghuloum, an Intel parallel computing engineer, said that over the next half-decade Intel planned to make the chip design available to an increasingly broad spectrum of the computing world, from Windows and Macintosh desktop personal computers to handhelds and even supercomputers.
The market for add-on graphics accelerators, which are prized by PC game players, is now dominated by Nvidia and the ATI division of AMD. Intel’s approach will be distinguished by its reliance on the industry standard x86 instruction set, which will allow the chips to take advantage of a huge library of existing software.