Intel shelves Larrabee gpu project

December 10th, 2009 Posted in GPUs

Intel has shelved plans to continue development of Larrabee graphics processor. Intel spokesperson Nick Knupffer said that Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where Intel hoped to be and as a result the first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone graphics product, rather it will be used as a software development platform for internal and external use. At SC'09, Intel demonstrated Larrabee computational power which peaked at over 1 TFLOP. Market analysts said that Larrabee is being repositioned as an HPC coprocessor and since Intel learned a whole lot from this project, is not going to throw that investment or knowledge away. Intel could now decide to follow the high performance trail like AMD is doing with Fusion.