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Intel declares open season on "Larrabee" speculation
Intel today made sure that it said as little as possible on its forthcoming Larrabee architecture.
A roundup of information that was provided to the media simply stated:
"Intel has begun planning products based on a highly parallel, IA-based programmable architecture codenamed "Larrabee." It will be easily programmable using many existing software tools, and designed to scale to trillions of floating point operations per second (Teraflops) of performance. The Larrabee architecture will include enhancements to accelerate applications such as scientific computing, recognition, mining, synthesis, visualization, financial analytics and health applications. "
Hardware enthusiast websites such as our big sister The Inq have digging for details on Larrabee for some time now, speculating that Larrabee amounts to an entry by Intel into the graphics market.
Problem is that Intel is withholding so many details, that the above paragraph could be used to proof or disproof anything and everything.
The mention of application specific accelerators for high performance applications however could lead some to speculate that the architecture targets the scientific computing area that Intel is currently addressing with its Itanium.
But then again, graphics chips do a pretty good job at heavy number crunching. The one thing therefore doesn't exclude the other. For it just means that Intel has declared open season on Larrabee specs.
April 17, 2007 at 02:41 AM | Permalink
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