Intel talks dedicated media accelerators in Sandy Bridge
Speaking at a Wells Fargo Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference earlier this month, Intels vice president and director of PC Client operations and enabling at Intel, Stephen Smith, said pulling videos and photos from the web or your own devices as well as transforming them into different formats will be dramatically faster thanks to these media accelerators which is good news especially for systems relying solely on the built-in graphics.
On the other hand, graphics chips from AMD and Nvidia already support DirectX 11. Smith also pointed out that Sandy Bridge should enable slimmer designs that perform more like mainstream laptops, and reiterated that the company is on track to deliver 22-nanometer processors by the end of 2011 with Ivy Bridge. The latter will integrate a DirectX 11 compatible graphics chip and should bring quad-core designs to the entry-level segment.
Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/41355-intel-talks-dedicated-media-accelerators-in-sandy-bridge.html
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