Larrabee: A fiasco, or the future?

[marten_larsson]

its like expecting an SUV which can drive everywhere and is sortof a general purpose car, to beat an F1 car, which can only drive on very flat streets, but does so at insane speeds... now you either build an insane suv mutant at insane costs, that can drive as fast as a f1 car on a racetrack, but can ALSO drive everywhere else... or youll lose the race on an f1 track... obviously...

Great car anology!

[XmikeX]

Great car anology!

Indeed. Unfortunately, F-1 seems insipid these days.

XmX

[gosh]

Larabee needs to be compatible with software in some way and if you develop for Larabee that software needs to work on other hardware with reasonably speed.

Intel would need to spend loads of money to develop software for Larabee if it differs to much from existing hardware. As a programmer you don't start to develop advanced software if there isn't a market.

If DX12 has raytracing and that works on AMD and/or nVidia GPU's. This could maybe be the entry for Larabee into the market.