GIGABYTE Enters Long Term Partnership with LUCIDLOGIX

[digitalwanderer]

I don't generally take the time to reformat a press release into a post, please take that to show my excitement for this one:

GIGABYTE Enters Long Term Partnership with LUCIDLOGIX

Kicks Off with Extensive Virtu™ GPU Virtualization Software License on Future 6 Series Motherboards

City of Industry, California, USA – May 5th, 2011– GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today announced a new partnership with Lucidlogix, the makers of Virtu™ GPU virtualization technology. The partnership ushers in broad adoption of Virtu™ on future GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards, and sets the stage for long term cooperation between the two companies.

Lucid_Virtu.png“We are excited about our new partnership with Lucid because of the huge potential for switchable graphics in the PC DIY market where GIGABYTE motherboards enjoy considerable market share,” said Henry Kao, VP of R&D, at GIGABYTE. “We believe that Virtu will add considerable value to GIGABYTE motherboards using Intel’s Sandy Bridge graphics and will provide our customers with the flexibility and choice they want from their system."

"We are proud of our new partnership with GIGABYTE, who shares our vision of virtualization and high-performance computing for all," said Offir Remez, president and founder of LucidLogix. “We are sure that Intel Sandy Bridge motherboard customers will appreciate the seamless experience provided by Lucid GPU virtualization, enjoying both Intel graphics’ robust media features and powerhouse 3D gaming from whatever brand GPU they choose.”

GIGABYTE motherboards sporting Virtu™ will be available after the much anticipated launch of Intel’s next generation 6 series chipsets. These new 6 series motherboards will also feature the world’s newest icon-based BIOS, called GIGABYTE Touch BIOS™, for uniquely user-friendly PC system control and BIOS navigation. Motherboard models with Virtu technology include:

GIGABYTE Motherboard Models
Z68X-UD3H-B3
Z68A-D3H-B3
Z68MX-UD2H-B3
Z68MA-D2H-B3

For more information about GIGABYTE motherboards with Virtu please keep an eye on the official GIGABYTE website and the GIGABYTE Tech Daily blog.

I've long been fascinated with the Lucidlogix tech, I'd love to see it working and mainstream!

 

[Malo]

So will this allow, for example, P67 based motherboards to be able to use the full media features of the sandybridge whilst having full switching between the SB gpu and the PCIe GPU on demand?

 

[digitalwanderer]

No clue. I'm hopeful that it'll magically allow you to plug in up to four viddy cards of any make/manufacturer and get them to play together nicely.

Of course I'm also hopeful that santa will be good to me this year...

 

[Malo]

So, you're really excited about a technology but have no idea what is does

 

[digitalwanderer]

You sum me up pretty well there.

 

[DarthShader]

This Virtu stuff is another licence cost that you as a customer will have to eeat up, next to the SLi license. While nVidia already announced and AMD will follow soon their own solution, which will come for free. I am waiting for a solution that will allow the GPU fan to be turned off while the GPU sleeps.

 

[Grall]

I'm curious, I make the interpretation that this hybrid EFI bios is an amalgamation between EFI and old crappy bios, in which case I don't want hybrid EFI nothing. I want plain EFI. Period...

Also, I'm a bit of a loss trying to understand what that press release is selling. Is it basically seamless switching between integrated and external graphics hardware?