In this first part of a three-part video series taken from an Intel Developer Forum session, Intel marketing director Steve Skibiski discusses the company's vision and strategy for visual computing with next-generation Intel integrated graphics.

Speaking on Intel's 4-series graphics architecture, Skibiski predicts that 2008 is the year of high definition and the increased importance of high definition video: "The reasons for that is that we have greater broadband penetration. With this capability, you will see standard definition on web sites going to high definition. You will start seeing high definition being introduced as widgets on web sites."

He went on to emphasize the importance of the CPU processor to the overall experience that users get on platforms: "The processor continues to be the most important driver in the visual computing experience, but innovations in high definition video processing, like accelerators and post-processing algorithms, give platform engineers more options ind developing media and entertainment PCs."