This just in: Sweeney Reports that Intel IGA’s still suck
Sweeney: Yes, actually it might. If you look into the past, CPU makers are learning more and more how to take advantage of GPU-like architectures. Internally, they accept larger data and they have wider vector units: CPUs went from a single-threaded product to multiple cores. And who knows, we might find the way to get the software rendering back into fashion.
Then, every PC, even the lowest performing ones will have excellent CPUs. If we could get software rendering going again, that might be just the solution we all need. Intel’s integrated graphics just don’t work. I don’t think they will ever work.TG Daily: These are harsh words. It looks like Intel has a lot of things coming down the pipe.
Sweeney: They always say ‘Oh, we know it has never worked before, but the next generation …” It has always been the next generation. They go from one generation to the next one and to the next one. They’re not faster now than they have been at any time in the past.
This was a recent interview with Sweeney, but the same mantra about Intel’s Integrated Graphics Adapters could’ve been said for the past 3-5 years at least…
What else can be said? Nothing really. When the only ones standing on the mountaintops on this issue are Game Developers but not general Game Media, consumers or shareholders, then Intel has no real incentive to change.





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