Intel and AMD team up against Nvidia
For the first time since the 1980's, rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) are partnering to create a new mobile chip that will contain an Intel processor and AMD GPU. It will pit the two companies against Nvidia. The new chip will be tailored for ultra thin laptops that have the processing strenght to play graphics intensive games. The new chip will be part of Intel's eighth generation Intel Core line of processors.
The laptops built with the new chips won't be competing with AMD's own Ryzen chips. According to AMD, the Ryzen chips aren't specifically designed for serious gaming whereas the new chips will be. The new CPU/GPU architecture is called EMIB, short for Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge, will allow information to be passed quicky according to Intel.
According to Chris Walker, vice president of Intel's Client Computing Group, this new chip will address a nagging problem: as VR becomes smaller, the notebooks with the graphics horsepower to run VR is still bulky and heavy. This may be what both Intel and AMD needs as it continues the battle in the AI chip market as Nvidia dominates and other, non traditional chip manufacturers enter the market.