Intel "iGraphics" built in to Nehalem..

[TheBluePill]

Reading an article on Techgage, they show one of intel's slides with something new called "iGraphics" built in to Nehalem processors;

http://techgage.com/article/intel_details_nehalem_dunnington_tukwila_larrabee/


Are we looking at an on-die integrated Larrabee or something akin to an advancement of MMX?

 

[trudude]

Looks great. That is gonna an AWESOME time for some upgrading.

 

[meatfestival]

My money is on some kind of MMX/SSE instruction set type thing.

 

[alg7_munif]

iGraphics is represented by a blue bar which is missing in both 4 cores and 8 cores Nahalem in that picture.

 

[Zetherin]

iGraphics is represented by a blue bar which is missing in both 4 cores and 8 cores Nahalem in that picture.

Yeah, but look on the bright side - at least we'll have 2 QPI's on the 8 cores! (whatever the fuck that means)

 

[TheBluePill]

iGraphics is represented by a blue bar which is missing in both 4 cores and 8 cores Nahalem in that picture.

The Article says it will be an optional component and may not be present at launch, which leads me to beleive it is some type of on-board graphics processor, but to what extent I am unsure..

Maybe we will finally see some real value in the "extreme" edition CPUs, with onboard Larabee.

As for the 2 QPI's, those are Quick Path Interconnects to the Memory.