Intel talks up Larrabee
Keeping mum on core count
INTEL HAS ANNOUNCED that its Larrabee chips will feature numerous processor cores and support openGL as well as DirectX. This will reportedly allow the new chip to maintain compatibility with current games and software.
According to Larry Seiler, chief architect of Intel's visual computing group, the Larrabee x86-based chip will target the gaming market and industries that demand high-performance graphics and parallel processing.
Indeed, Larrabee significantly improves application and graphic performance by combining the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs with x86 architecture.
The new chip will also feature dedicated co-processors to handle specific graphics functions.
Although the Larrabee core is similar to that of that of the Pentium, the new core boasts significant enhancements, including a wide vector processing unit, 64-bit extensions, multithreading and pre-fetching.
The Larrabee chip, slated for release in 2009 or 2010, will compete with both Nvidia and AMD for market dominance.
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Was this article lifted directly from the Intel press release, certainly reads like it was.More info
can be found here:http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3367Market top end competition?
ROFL. Intel still can't get drivers working for their last chipsets...LOL. I don't think they be competing for anything other than market FLATULENCE. :)NV/AMD are laughing at stories like these. Intel gets their driver working AFTER the EOL has been announced for them and they're already a rev or two later on new chipsets. Let me know when they write a driver that WORKS out of the box. Get ready for another i740 hype engine...heh. Followed by drivers that will work 2 years later.
Intel integrated graphics disaster?
Please explain how on earth Intel will deliver a graphics monster when they reportedly have issues designing lowly integrated graphics? Inquiring minds really want to know. That's kind of like saying, "we're Yugo, and we sort of want to get into making Porsches". Anyone remember G915 Vista lawsuit, the i740 Intel discrete graphics of yore, and maybe the G965 that will someday run DX10 really, really crappy? How about a recent one....... G45 desktop chipset launched in June with no motherboards. Odds of Laterbee running Crysis? Hmmmm....Larrabee could be next Itanium
It seems it requires too much software stack to run properly, and Intel has proved not to be always good at it. We'll see.re:
Well, if Intel can rise the % of people that dont buy a NV/AMD card anymore, they win big time. So what if it cant run Crysis? Most sold processors never play crysis, you know.Larrabee...
...is actually a lot (some say 16 at launch) of modified P54C cores. Yup, it really *is* a board filled up with a bunch of the Pentium processors of yore.As for Intel not being able to create a competetive graphics solution? We're talking about the same company that currently has the best performing x86 processors.
Trust me, there's a huge difference between Larrabee and integrated chipset graphics. The latter do exactly what they're supposed to. Namely do their "magic" in office PCs.
It'll at least be interesting to see how exactly Larrabee will perform, but I'm very confident that it'll in no way compare to their integrated chipset graphics.
Oh, and Intel has some damn fine coders too.
Can they put a quad core cpu and dual core GPU together on a die?
Add on some ram slots, what have you got? Something that might be pretty quick.Give us a CPU slot so we can remove and change it, same for the GPU, and we have an upgrade path too.
Picture a card, cpu and gpu on same/different sides. RAM slots, perhaps some dedicated/shared depending on market. Then this card is attached to the motherboard for HDD, DVD and other peripherals.
Does that sound like a good idea? Would it increase computing performance?
Add standard water cooling and you probably have a new type of hardware solution for the future.