Given that AMDs new integrated is 3 times as powerfull with less power consumption and that NVIDIA isn't sleeping as well with their cut down versions this is highly unlikely that Intel will still hold that market share. but they have a market share projection in there stating that they will have more or less the same share by 2011 as well. A passive cooled but still nicely performing system, back on track!

I like the idea of combining an Atom processor with one of the coming up 45/50nm low power GPUs from AMD/NVIDIA/Intel. In the future AMD will go 45nm with the fusion but so will Intel. You still don't want to play games like Crysis on it but it would be a really nice chip for a Mini for instance. You also don't have to forget that Intel's northbridge (were the X3000 is integrated) still is built on a dinosaur process (90nm or even 125nm) whilst AMD's fusion (780G) beside of several design issues is simply built on a 65nm process (with an overall TDP of 45W if i remember correctly). In the end who cares as they all are getting faster as time passes. But well what other things should he say and they also first have to produce chips with a convincing TDP.

Performance wise it's said that the successor, the X4000, will be a lot faster than the X3000 although the CEO of nVIDIA once said, when the X4000 will be released it's likely it's still slower because they plan to offer way faster products then. For instance something like Sam&Max shouldn't be a problem. Whilst the X3000 for sure is no screamer i think you can still develop some nice games for it. Click the link to an Intel product name in the left column of the tables below to take you to the graphics controller support web site for answers to top technical questions and driver downloads.Don't know were you get your information from but the stats i have read all say that Intel has a huge market share for gfx chips due to the integrated chips and i think this makes a lot of sense when i'm looking at how many notebooks and business pc's alone are built with these chips inside.Identify your Intel® integrated graphics controller.

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