Intel has provided the first details of its new graphics chip technology code named Larrabee. The new chip architecture is designed to improve performance by putting more 'cores' on a chip, rather than focusing attention on developing a single chip to run faster. The company plans this way to enter new markets, starting with high-end graphics processors.

As dual and quad-core chips have become a mainstay in computer chip technology, Intel's Larrabee, Intel says, will empower over 10 processing units (or cores) on a single chip with the possibility of increasing cores to hundreds. The new processors are slated to enter the market only in late 2009 or early 2010, in direct competition with Nvidia and ATI (now owned by AMD).

Source: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007381.html

I wonder what that will mean to the market...

Intel seriously is going to fail at this even with SLi tech on their motherboards

We'll they can't fail as much as nvidia is now, amirite?

From what I read, it seemed like a lower clock rate (1 GHz) version of the Cell based on x86 instead of PPC, but intended as a coprocessor, not as a main processor.

It should be a great processor for some applications, but I'm not sure it will beat GPUs at graphics.

The prices will be frightful, Intel aren't known for their cheap hardware...

once they release their CPGPU processors then things will get interesting.