Once the original GeForce appeared, the competition kind of vanished. Lots of companies gave up or retreated to the Integrated Graphics Processor sector. Only ATI was there to hold the battle. Now that nVidia feels less pressure coming from that front, Intel wants a piece of the discrete graphics pie.

Bit-tech has something to say about the next graphics processor from the CPU giant and the strategies linked. The last time they made a serious attempt at getting a share of the graphics market, with the i740, things were quite different. Back then, you didn't have to deal with what you could call a "GPU", and the scene is bound to change yet again in a few years. AMD is prepairing Fusion, and nVidia has already made progress with Tesla. It's at this point that Intel wants to get back in the game, a place they feel more comfortable with.

Larabee will be more CPU-like: “a highly parallel, many core product comprised of an array of Intel architecture cores” and if you think future games won't take advantage of those qualities because they favor FPU power, think again. Just prior to this announcement, Intel bought the best physics engine out there (by acquiring Havok). Coincidence?

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