It’s not all that much to go on--a PowerPoint slide purported to have been disgorged from the bowels of Intel, but with actual provenance unknown. It does, however, offer the possibility of interesting speculation on the direction that Intel might be taking in its quest to cobble on a graphics processor to its CPUs, in its effort to compete with ATi and Nvidia.
The slide originates at donanimhaber.com (which Google says is in Turkish, so good luck with it--even translated it doesn’t make sense). Matthew Humphries, at Geek.com, offers his take: Intel is going to focus on middle- to low-end gaming environments in building an integrated graphics processor (IGP), and leave the high end alone.
What’s Intel aiming for? According to the slide, their IGP will be targeted at games such as World of Warcraft, Battlefield Heroes, The Sims 2, Peggle, Bejeweled, and Diner Dash. Each level targeted constitutes either “a broad user community” or the “fastest growing PC games segment”. Roughly translated: the places where numbers favor Intel’s venture being successful.
Whether this represents Intel’s thinking on its HD Graphics project we may soon know. Humphries expects the slide to make an appearance, if it’s legitimate, at CES in January.
