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My hypothesis: The Intel DG1 is a series of multicore GPU's, where they basically "glue together" a bunch of integrated chipsets on to a discrete GPU.
My evidence:
1. The Linux driver that supports multi-GPU setups for Intel graphics. Intel has never been very keen on having good drivers, why now, and why for multi-GPU? Driver development for big features like this costs a lot of money, and Intel will need to have a good reason to spend money on development of it.
2. The naming (8+2, 6+2). I'm guessing 8 GPU cores + 2 GB of memory
3. 8 Intel GPU cores (+1 integrated in CPU) could very well compete in the mid-to-high-end of graphics cards, if done right.
4. It would make sense of this whole "But why integrated-class performance in discrete graphics!?"
I didn't watch the whole WAN show segment on it so I don't know if anyone already speculated about this. But if someone didn't, I'm calling it now so I can brag about potentially being right later!
Thoughts? Am I an idiot for thinking this? Do you agree? Do you have additional evidence to support this hypothesis, or maybe even shatter it?