lucrative graphics chip market: Intel wants a piece of the pie

Intel is hiring for a new "visual computing" group that will build many-core chips graphics processing capabilities for the scientific community. Given that this market returns a revenue of $5 Billion every quarter, it looks like a good investment to get into. Further, Intel is looking to have it own piece of the GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) or the CPU+GPU market that AMD is already touting. Looks like a new area of work for the program analysis folks and the hardware designers.