Larrabee GPUs inside Xbox 720?

September 5th, 2008 Posted in GPUs

According to The Inquirer, Microsoft's nextgen Xbox (Xbox 720) gpu may be the upcoming Intel Larrabee. For publishers and developers, switching to a new hardware architecture is a risk in term of costs, so Intel is having trouble getting developers to program for Larrabee. Since most games these days are written for consoles before being ported to pc, it seems Intel is trying to win a contract for a nextgen console. This will force publishers and developers to program for Larrabee. If Larrabee get in at least one nextgen console, probably we will have cheaper console and more competition in the PC graphics card market.