Intel is fighting with the atomic-GPU

Intel is fighting with the atomic-GPU


In April, Intel still promised DirectX 10.1 for Cedar View.
Image: Intel after the one hand there is pressure from the ARM-side and on the other hand, AMD introduced with C-50 and E-350 more potent competitor, Intel wanted to increase the stroke rate in the nuclear family really. Already on the developer forum Intel Developer Forum in Beijing in April, Intel had tumbled to 32-nanometer Atom generation Cedarview, and later announced a significant acceleration of the roadmap in 2013 to start the 22-nm version of Silver Mont and also the 14-nm-Airmont has already been mentioned.


In September, only the speech of DirectX 9.
Image: Intel Intel fights But apparently now at Cedarview with significant problems. By motherboard manufacturers learned heise online that the Windows graphics drivers do not work properly and it therefore could not deliver the products. A comparison of presentations from IDF Beijing in the spring of 2011 and the recently completed IDF Fall 2011 is noticeable that Intel DirectX 10.1 is no longer mentioned, is now only talk of DirectX 9.

Are in an unusual way a few days ago the first official information on Cedar View D2700 and D2500-atom appeared for desktop computers as well as on N2800 and N2600 for Netbooks Intel has mentioned some of these processors in the price list and published some data. Products with these processors, but show up nowhere, according to information from traders, they may appear only in December.

According to speculation, the Cedar View Graphics GMA-hot 3600 and actually come from Imagination Technologies: This is therefore a PowerVR SGX545. Even when PowerVR SGX535, the infected than GMA 500 and GMA 600 (the latter with a higher clock frequency) in the atom, Z500, Z670 and E600, Intel did with the drivers very hard - the Embedded Media and Graphics Driver (EMGD) supports, for example still only WDDM 1.0.

Currently is not entirely clear which requires Microsoft DirectX features of ARM or x86 SoCs that will run on Windows 8 in tablets and cheap notebooks. Presumably, it continues to DirectX 9 plus selected components of DirectX 10, because Windows 8 will use GPU acceleration than even Windows 7