Intel entering DISCRETE GPU market in 2008?
By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com
Published: June 7, 2007, 12:24 PM EST

According to a DigiTimes report, Intel is planning to move into the mid-range GRAPHICS card market for desktop PCs, positioning the products as direct competitors to AMD's ATI Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce series of cards. Although Intel’s roadmap reportedly remains vague at the moment, sources from multiple graphics card vendors have confirmed Intel has approached them to lay down their GPU market entrance plans.

Reception to the news is generally positive with one graphics card vendor stating that it will almost certainly support the Intel line with new products, while most of the others are all waiting for more information before they make a decision.
Intel has built a strong lead in the graphics market, holding over a 50% share of the integrated graphics market (IGP) in the first quarter of 2007, although this is will not guarantee Intel success in the discrete market its entrance into the GPU market should benefit customers, considering the company has the resources and aggressiveness to compete with AMD and Nvidia in terms of technology and costs.

http://www.techspot.com/news/25607-intel-entering-discrete-gpu-market-in-2008.htmlThis would create one heck of a fight, with AMD/ATI with CPUs and GPUs and then Intel doing the same.
nVidia might face a struggle to survive.nVidia still makes sick Graphics Cards.Isn't AMD working on a CPU that has the GPU built into it?

That would make for some crazy graphics performance, and be hard to compete with. Quote from: Beta Quadrant on June 17, 2007, 03:00:55 PM

nVidia still makes sick Graphics Cards.

Isn't AMD working on a CPU that has the GPU built into it?

That would make for some crazy graphics performance, and be hard to compete with.

Isn't AMD working on a CPU that has the GPU built into it? "YES"

That would make for some crazy graphics performance, and be hard to compete with.