Keith Packard at Intel?

Posted Aug 10, 2006 8:51 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: Keith Packard at Intel? by tetromino
Parent article: Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

I think the differentiating part is this: "65 Express Chipset represents
the first product family that implements fourth generation Intel graphics
architecture [...] this chipset family includes support for programmable
vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders.".

I guess there weren't earlier any Open Source gfx card driver containing
all of this potentially badly patent-encumbered stuff. MicroSoft might
have a few patents on this area (now that they own SGI's patents etc)...

Anyway, after this news the new computer I'm going to buy next winter is
most likely going to be some Intel-combo that doesn't warm up the house
as much and noisily as my current setup (Athlon-XP + large CRT monitor;
my Matrox G550 doesn't warm much, but it doesn't perform that well
either).