Kiss the IPU Good-Bye

By Maureen O'Gara	Article Rating:
March 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT	Reads:	3,854

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Jon Peddie, the graphics guru, says the popular integrated graphics processor chipset known as the IGP and used in PCs for the last 11 years is only going to be around for a few more years.

By 2012 it will have ceased to exist, replaced by graphics embedded in the processor.

Peddie calculates that 67% of the graphics chips shipped last year were IGPs. In 2011 the number will drop to 20%, and by 2013 it will be less than 1%.

The first embedded graphics processor will be Intel's Westmere due in Q4, followed by AMD's Fusion processor due in the second quarter of 2011, both on a 32nm process.

For a period of time between 2010 and 2012, he says, there will be three choices for graphics available: traditional discrete GPUs mounted on add-in boards and/or the motherboard, integrated graphics processor (IGP) chipsets, and processors with embedded graphics. One or more of these devices will be employed in PCs.

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