In 1998, Intel introduces their first graphics processor, the i740.
The Intel740, introduced in February 1998, was Intel's first effort at a dedicated graphics card. The Intel740 was deemed failed because to poor performance that fell short of market expectations, prompting Intel to halt work on future discrete graphics devices. Its technology, however, survived in the Intel Extreme Graphics series. Intel attempted the Larrabee design again before abandoning it in 2009; this time, the technology produced was used in the Xeon Phi, which was decommissioned in 2020.
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