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Is Larrabee Dead?: The Tangled Future of CPUs and GPUs
December 11, 2009 -By Michael J. Miller
Is Larrabee Dead?: The Tangled Future of CPUs and GPUs http://tinyurl.com/ydfglks We've seen a lot of stories this week about Intel's announcement that it would not be shipping a version of its "Larrabee" processor as a graphics chip in the next few months, as the company had previously announced. Instead, Intel says it will ship this processor only as a development platform for now, while continuing to work on it. While some have taken this as the "death" of Larrabee, I see it mostly as a continuing indication of just how hard it is to bring the theory of parallel processing into the practice of the real world. I'm certain Intel will continue to work on many of the concepts within Larrabee, because the overall directions of both the CPU and the GPU markets require it. As I see it, the two big trends in general processor designs are a push for much greater parallelism, particularly for high-end computing; and much more integration, particularly for mainstream and low-end computing. The Larrabee project had implications for both of those; and for how Intel, AMD, and Nvidia compete going forward. |
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Is Larrabee Dead?: The Tangled Future of CPUs and GPUs
Intel Guy wrote:
December 11, 2009 -By Michael J. Miller Is Larrabee Dead?: The Tangled Future of CPUs and GPUs I think the only way Intel is going to finally be successful at GPUs is when they decide to follow the lead of the market, rather than trying to dictate to it. This is relevant to most of their other ventures too, not just GPUs. Yousuf Khan |
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