Intel Inside Graphics Boards Makes AGP Zoom

Our test drive of Intel's first 2D/3D graphics chip demonstrates its impressive price and AGP performance.

Having staked claim to much of your PC's guts--from the CPU and supporting chip set to the motherboard itself--Intel is now eyeing the graphics system with its first desktop graphics chip, the Intel740.

Early indications point to an impressive debut. Several major graphics board vendors, including Diamond Multimedia, Number Nine, and STB Systems, say they will sell 2D-3D boards based on the Intel740; Intel can also put the chip directly on motherboards. And Chips & Technologies, a provider of graphics chips for notebooks, is now part of Intel. Does all of this mean that smaller chip makers will be run out of town?

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