Hardly a week goes by without us criticizing the bad performances of the graphics chips of Intel that the foundery has now the bad idea to directly install next to the processor, removing any chance to be able to doing without it.
In an interview, an senior executive of Intel justified the poor performance of these chips by declaring that the customers do not need powerful graphics chips. For him, people who play 3D games requiring a lot of power are a small minority.
He even declared, an obviousness, that AMD had much better graphic solutions than them, immediately passing over NVidia.
The worst is certainly that he is not very far from the truth, if not in spirit, then at least in the facts. Intel is today the biggest manufacturer of graphic solutions far in front of AMD and NVidia. It is not wrong to consider that only one small fraction of the computers are used to play really demanding games.
On the other hand, it seems to forget that the 3D is increasingly present in the operating systems such as Windows 7 and also when Vista was released, the graphics chips Intel at that time could not support Aero in spite of the stickers saying that the machine would support this OS.
While looking at further, Intel could also find itself in difficulties if Open CL really manages to penetrate. Agreed it is yet used much 6 months after the release of Snow Leopard, but all is not lost. This advertisement or rather declaration is probably also recognition of the chronic incapacity of Intel to manufacture powerful graphics chips. Even their famous Larrabee project wanting to be a killer of graphic boards resembles an arlésienne more and more.
