Intel Larrabee, own graphic chip line
Intel has unveiled details of the chip that will spearhead its move into computer graphics. It has revealed blueprints for the Larrabee chip that is scheduled to first appear in finished products in late 2009 or early 2010. Larrabee will be a stand-alone graphics processor unlike the onboard chips it produces for many PC makers. The move will bring Intel into direct competition with graphics specialists Nvidia and the ATI division of AMD. Intel is aiming to put Larrabee into graphics cards for PCs that help show games and video in very high detail. Like existing graphics chips from Nvidia and ATI, Larrabee is expected to have many separate processing cores onboard.
So far Intel has not said how many processing cores Larrabee will have onboard at launch or in subsequent generations. Future Nvidia and ATI graphics chips are expected to be made up of several hundred cores. While Intel will initially target the PC graphics card market, it expects the raw computer power in the chip to help with oil and gas exploration, medical imaging and financial services in the future. Many scientists and researchers already use coupled graphics cards as a desktop supercomputer that helps them carry out simulations far faster and cheaper than on a larger dedicated machine. Intel said it would release more details about Larrabee at the upcoming Siggraph computer graphics conference due to be held in Los Angeles from 12-15 August.
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Comments(19)
LARABEE, ISNT THAT A FAMOUS MAGE?
i think that is actually make scene! instead of all those SLI that only heating the case…
Larrabee seems to be aimed at GPGPU applications rather than running games.
“Scientists use dual graphics cards for desktop super computers”
ROFL! Folding @Home != desktop supercomputer
Crossfire/SLI != desktop supercomputer
Can you use stream processors on the GPU(graphics card CPU) for faster floating point(decimal for non-coders 1.5 etc) calculation.. YES. GPUs being used from fluid dynamics simulation isn’t new and was around before the advent of stream processors using 3DFX cards etc.
Gotta love tech news. Read the press-release verbatim and then speculate on the awesomeness is the formula for 99% of tech journalists.
Back to the topic I think its interesting but I’m not impressed with Intel’s last batch of low end GPUs. And I wonder if this will further the Wintel(Windows/Intel) monopoly on the desktop.
Wow, we had onboard graphics on my amiga back in ‘89 and have always had them on Macs. Snaps to Intel for their ‘innovation’
hank, but how many games can you play on a mac compared to pc?
yeah, about 4, so stfu corksniffer.
Wrong.
Larabee isn’t a GFX add in card it’s a Parallel processing CPU
(16 cores+) which can handle rendering code.
Post less crap and more Scene releases please.
Hank hill…
Larabee is about 400+x faster then a macs GPU.
your a tool. QQ
Although I’m sure some people have been doing it for many years, it’s just recently that executing non-graphics code on graphics cards has been gaining mainstream attention.
CUDA from Nvidia seems to be meant to encourage it, but I think it’s only supported on the G92 and up. Could be wrong though.
I’m just looking forward to the competition and price-breaks to follow
LOL @ the hater Sealion. Intel LOVES to make promises, I guess we’ll see eventually, eh?
I can’t believe all the tech companies are still tied down to the archaic ATX standard. It’s what, 15 years old?
Time for an upgrade amirite…
Will it ever be possible that you will buy a motherboard and it has everything onboard (such as GFX, CPU, RAM etc)?
#13 Yes … its called a mac
#14 = tard.
Macs = use PC hardware. The components are not built into the motherboard. Fail.
Now you know why the next Doom is being created!
#1 rule for engineers:
if it ain’t broke – don’t mess with it.
unless theres enough rich people to buy your broken product!
Screw that onboard crap. They are going to need space and it will be an excuse to avoid slots for addon hardware. Then you’ll be stuck with the same machine forever or you will have to buy a whole new machine. It’s the PC going Playstation…
uhh mac guys. intel makes ur macs nowadays..
They have come out w/ other form factors than ATX, but they’re not popular, and I’d never want a mainboard w/ everything on it. I wouldn’t be able to upgrade as easily, and all the stuff is just gonna suck a little bit more power off your CPU. And Personally I don’t like Intel, I doubt I’ll like their GFX Cards, and their only trying to to do what AMD/ATI has done. the ability to run applications through your GPU core has been around for a while and allows you to put a little extra work into doing things like floding proteins for reaserch> intel will find a market base somewhere>