Man, Intel sure hasn’t been shy about breaking out the checkbook of late. Just a few months after it allocated $7 billion for investments in chip plants, the company has decided to set aside another $12 million in order to create a Visual Computing Research Center in Europe. What for, you ask? To “explore advanced graphics and visual computing technologies.”The facility opens up today at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, and we’re told that the five year investment represents the company’s largest