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Why not Larrabee?

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 1st 2008 | Permalink
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Anyone not stuck in outer space or maximum security knows Intel is going to introduce a new chip code named Larrabee. At Siggraph they are going to reveal, after almost two years of teases and leaks, the architecture of the device. It is not a GPU as many have mistakenly described it, but it can do most graphics functions, Intel says it can do all, we’ll have to wait for proof. Right now its slide-ware, but development systems are supposed to become available in November. ATI and Nvidia will be very busy discrediting the device and pointing out its shortcomings. They…