Posts Tagged ‘larrabee’
Intel shelves Larrabee gpu project
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. More »
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Larrabee GPUs inside Xbox 720?
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 More »
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New Larrabee details
Intel unveiled some details about its upcoming Larrabee accelerator/discrete graphics architecture, due for launch in 2009 or 2010. Larrabee is a multi core processor containing ten or more individual x86 processor cores inside one silicon package. Discrete graphics cards using the Larrabee architecture will be aimed at the gaming market, this means that Intel is directly targeting Amd and Nvidia. The use of x86 cores means that game developers More »
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