Financial Analysts Say Intel Killed the Discrete Graphics Card
Intel has most certainly created some tension between integrated graphics, good-enough-graphics and discrete graphics cards with the introduction of Ivy Bridge.
The view of the financial community has been generally very positive, which is reflected in Intel's stock price that is currently trading in the $28 neighborhood and is hitting 7-year highs. With the past 12 months, Intel's market cap has increased from about $110 billion to about $142 billion.
Financial background about Intel released today by financial analyst firm Five Star Equities confirms in that sentiment and indicates that the financial community has, for the first in more than 5 years, high expectations in Intel's opportunity in the chip market. Five Star Equities states that Ivy Bridge essentially kills the discrete graphics card because the integrated graphics of the CPU would be good enough for 95 percent of computer users.
"There is a very small market of people who seek out high-performance graphics cards, mostly comprised of hardcore gamers," the report reads. "The improved graphics provided by the Ivy Bridge chips will likely satisfy the needs of the average consumer."
The report also quotes industry analyst Jack Gold, who said that "extreme gamers who want very powerful graphics cards are in a niche market already, and it's shrinking." Gold continued and noted that Nvidia may be in trouble, "because their graphics chip market is falling off faster than their mobile chip market."
I smell some bovine fecal material here...
at least the serious ones do!
at least the serious ones do!
I smell some bovine fecal material here...
What an idiot.
Hmmmmmm I guess I'm part of the five percent
I bet they also think that 95 percent of computer users believe that OS X is immune to malware.
Let's face it, if you don't game or do any GPU intensive task, they will not get discrete GPU. This is true before IB's HD 4000 and and true after it. I don't see how that distribution change, so how exactly will HD 4000 kill the discrete GPU market?
As long as someone wants to buy, someone will sell. End of.
I'm not even on the AMD bandwagon. Intel makes better processors right now. I just don't understand how it's HD4000 that "killed discrete graphics" (which aren't even close to dead anyway)
Huh? Intel tried multiple times to get into the discrete graphics market. After spending millions on Larrabee and delays they realized releasing Larrabee a gen too late was a bad idea and scraped it.
I don't see canceling a multi million dollar project they heavily promoted being a good way to pick their battles. If they were picking battles they would only win, they wouldn't have even tried to make Larrabee.
In other news electric cars killed all gas guzzlers
Indeed. Citing financial analysts to predict technological changes doesn't even make sense. Like asking a butcher to tell us all about fashion designers.
There's however this tendency of the press to either pay attention to, or actually ask, opinions of people not qualified to give them. Financial analysts being one of the screaming examples. And this one just making it evident why we shouldn't listen.