"...the market of standalone graphics cards is stagnating now and is doomed..."

Huh?

Intel didn't learn much from their last TWO forays into graphics cards... They'll get their arse handed to them again by Nvidia and ATI/AMD.

Intel now has reasons to actually put some money behind the development. General purpose stream processing AND an increasing relevance of Hi-Def content. Computing is becoming more visual and 3D, a la the Minority Report motion picture. anyone who thinks we will be typing, rather than verbally commanding, in 20 years is nuts. And since humans extract roughly 80% of their information from the world around them via their eyes, we're only going to rely on better visual interfaces from here on out.

The market for 'Go' or 'Mobile Radeon' cards, however is dramatically increasing as those laptop buyers who still want to game a bit are opening their wallets.

Intel lose in a market? Ask Sound Blaster about Azalia. Ask all the NIC card mfgs about gigabit ethernet onboard. I'm sure they'll tell you what a failure Intel has been. And the X3000 graphics are competitive, better in some instances, than NV/ATI solutions. Especially when they finally get some decent drivers.

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Mark1 is right, home-theaters are becoming more and more depended on computers.. in 10 years everyone will be getting their content from their home network connected to the internet... it makes only sense for Intel to get into this market and supply graphics card so that they can provide the whole HT sollution in the future... I just hope they start a price war with NV/ATI

i think that there will go long before we see anything decent, not saying that intel isn't capable, it's just, ATI, and nVidia have had a lot more time to develop.. and Intels IGP does suck, they are in no way competitive in performance..

Wow what a fucking joke of an article. Discrete graphics cards are DOOMED? Uhh.... wow. So much for that.... Discrete graphics cards HIT AN ALL TIME HIGH in sales in Q4 2007. So next time, dont make predictions that are LITERALLY the exact opposite of what happens.