Larrabee to be unveiled at Siggraph
Rattner's jewel
INTEL HELD ITS annual Research Day at facility in Mountain View today.
And one of the most important things that was said was an off hand remark by Justin Rattner.
He mentioned that Larrabee will be unveiled at Siggraph 2008.
We thought we'd pass it on. µ
Comments
There's a lab...
...over in Oregon (probably at RA2) where Larrabee validation samples must be quietly number-crunching along today, as we are speaking here.I wonder how many 3DMark points they are seeing... The faces of the people in that lab should be telling - are they drooling with pleasure, or frowning still slightly concerned? What TDP will they have arrived at with the reference design card? Ah, the suspense!
Larrabee
Now there is an in depth article if I've ever seen one. Good to know though, waiting to see if Intel will actually do anything good with Larrabee. They haven't been so hot in the graphics market in the last, well, decade.Is this an X86 Itanium?
Larrabee seems to have some key characteristics of itanium (shift scheduling load to the compiler, parallel ALUs) with the notable exception that it's based on the X86 instruction set.This could be a very successful part but it might encroach on itanium's niche, if Intel isn't careful to limit it.
RE: w The One
Just because Intel haven't been pushing the 3dMark barriers doesn't mean they haven't done well in graphics. I'm sure their profit line on their integrated gfx chip does all the talking neededAt that lab....
It is all smiles and performance is not measured in 3DMark points but rather in TFLOPs.BLAME INTEL
Really COOL Thing about Larrabee is that once You gets Yours hands on One, YOU Can Blazingly Print on box INTEL. yeah, send crapper back to Intel Too. Maybe it'll SELL.Drashek
The only talking needed re: Intel IGP
Is that people who buy Intel IGP's are eventually disappointed. What works in a spreadsheet/word processing business environment fails at home.My sister in law's family found to their chagrin that a Gateway Pentium D system couldn't play Guitar Hero. So, I got them an 8400gs that could.
I also built them a better system for gaming and home video with an Athlon X2 and a 780G IGP. Later, it will get upgraded with an even better ATI GPU.
If Intel IGP were worth anything outside of free on the motherboard for entry level business use, then they would not be doing Larrabee.