Larrabee: A fiasco, or the future?

[cegras]

why would an engineering team be able to build a sweet gpu at nvidia and ati but not intel? is there something special in the air or water in their labs there?

You already said it yourself: both ati and nvidia have design wins and losses, and the pedigree of their technology stretches back many many years. And yet, even though they are in the GPU business, they produce different designs.

[ajaidev]

You already said it yourself: both ati and nvidia have design wins and losses, and the pedigree of their technology stretches back many many years. And yet, even though they are in the GPU business, they produce different designs.

+1

It would have been easier for Intel to just buy Nvidia and go for the x86 GPU at a later stage. The question remains can Intel still buy Nvidia or cant they ??


Initially the x86 GPU will be back breaking but in long term not so much intel all ready has shown how the thing can do with more core. The base just needs to be stable so that the future is secure. The future seems more like a Crysis 5 Holographic edition than anything like Crysis 5 now with Ray tracing. 3D holograms need lots of processing power something that x86 GPU will be very very good at!! that is if it gets launched.

[Unoid]

Intel bought Havok in 07, as well as purchasing a game studio that is making Project offset.

I can see Intel releasing the game with advanced larrabeee support with kickass physics all done on larrabee

http://www.projectoffset.com/index.p...d=58&Itemid=12

[Xoulz]

Intel bought Havok in 07, as well as purchasing a game studio that is making Project offset.

I can see Intel releasing the game with advanced larrabeee support with kickass physics all done on larrabee

http://www.projectoffset.com/index.p...d=58&Itemid=12

Yep. We discussed this a while back and I also believe that Seth * Co's Project Offset will be Larrabee's golden egg.

Glad more people see this coming!



PS: whoever said "the'll need to learn to write new software for it (larrabee)" Doesn't understand Larrabee is X86...