Intel will invest $12 million over the next five years into the new Intel Visual Computing Institute located at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, the Institute is Intel's largest collaboration project with a European university. The Intel Visual Computing Institute is a new research center that will explore advanced graphics and visual computing technologies. Visual computing is the analysis, enhancement, and display of visual information to create real-time, realistic imagery that enhances interactivity with computers and other devices. Anti-aliasing can be thought of as an application of visual computing, as are advanced holographic display systems. This will help Intel with development of its Larrabee x86 many-core GPU and its follow-on products, which is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2010 and built using a 45nm process.

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