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While the move to ‘Core i’ series added high-definition playback to the company’s processors at the beginning of the year, the ‘Sandy Bridge’ chips will have built in 3D playback capacity. Currently, 3D playback — such as for films and games — requires the consumer to install special ‘graphics processors’ as Intel’s chips are not able to deal with the increased load on their own.

The move is expected to help Intel compete better with its arch-rival AMD — which four years ago acquired graphics processor firm ATI to come up with an integrated chip that had both the core processor and a powerful graphics unit in it.

The new AMD chips called ‘Fusion’ APUs or accelerated processing units started shipping last month and have received rave reviews from pundits and are seen as the fruition of AMDs ambitious takeover that nearly bankrupted the company.

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