Integrated Graphics - up to the task? (Score 1)

Are integrated graphics up to the challenge, what is needed to get them there? Inside Intel we have standardized on integrated graphics from desktop to notebook. This gives us essentially one graphics chipset and tools to focus on in a given year, plus there are price advantages. There has been little resistance to this internally, as long as we support high-resolution displays and digital outputs. For the office environment, this appears to be adequate, but we start bumping up against performance when we start looking at users with CAD tools. We also stuff the PCs with memory, to minimize the performance hit of the shared memory. What are your thoughts?