HardwareIntel's Larrabee Architecture Disclosure: A Calculated First Move

While not giving away much if any info about future products, Intel has cracked the door open just a bit on their Larrabee project. As expected, the information was fairly graphics centric. While we don't know a whole lot more about the hardware, we do have some better insights in to how Intel plans on using it....

Introduction Oooh this is dangerous. It started with Intel quietly (but not too quietly) informing many in the industry of its plans to enter the graphics market with something called Larrabee. NVIDIA responded by quietly (but not too quietly) criticizing the nonexistant Larrabee. What we've seen for the past several months has been little more than jabs thrown back and forth, admittedly with NVIDIA being a little more public with its swings. Today is a big day, without discussing competing architectures, Intel is publicly unveiling, for the first time, the basis of its Larrabee GPU architecture. Well, it is important to keep in mind that this is first and foremost NOT a GPU. It's a CPU. A many-core CPU that is optimized... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]

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