News Story Larrabee processor problem

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sun, 12/06/2009 - 18:07

Intel has confirmed reports that it will not release its next-generation graphics processor widely known as Larrabee as a discreet GPU.

Instead, most reports indicate that the company will move ahead with its many-core processor as a design and development platform aimed at graphics rendering and high-performance computing.

The idea behind Larrabee was relatively simple: combine a bunch of Pentium-class processor cores with coherent cache, add some SIMD vector and texture sampling units, and tie them all together...


 

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