{"id":296270,"date":"2019-02-18T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296270"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:27:38","slug":"intel-prepares-for-new-graphics-cards-with-driver-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/296270-intel-prepares-for-new-graphics-cards-with-driver-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel prepares for new graphics cards with driver updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel recently released new updates for its Linux graphics driver to prepare the system for its upcoming discrete graphics cards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Intel-Memory-Regions-Local-Dev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Phoronix<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The updates reportedly introduce memory region support to Linux graphics driver, which is required for discrete graphics cards that have dedicated VRAM.<\/p>\n<p>This feature was previously not necessary for Intel&#8217;s graphics drivers, as the company&#8217;s integrated graphics share memory with the CPU.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2018, Intel <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/287924-intel-confirms-it-will-launch-discrete-graphics-cards-in-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>confirmed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it was working on discrete graphics cards and it was set to launch its GPU products in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it plans to launch GPUs for both server and consumer applications, adding that it would consider feedback from the community as it develops its graphics products.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/294462-intel-launches-new-28-core-xeon-cpu.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel launches new 28-core Xeon CPU<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel recently released new updates for its Linux graphics driver to prepare the system for its upcoming discrete graphics cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":287926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57486,7587,131,57488],"class_list":["post-296270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-discrete-gpus","tag-drivers","tag-intel","tag-linux-patches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296288,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296270\/revisions\/296288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}