Comments on: Intel's Larrabee Aims to Take on Nvidia and AMD

By: FTC Makes Graphic Claim Against Intel – GigaOM

FTC Makes Graphic Claim Against Intel – GigaOM — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:12:45 +0000

[...] behavior. Much of the FTC complaint centers around Intel’s alleged attempts to destroy innovation in the graphics market where ironically the company just experienced a huge setback when it delayed its Larrabee graphics [...]

By: Will Cash-rich Chip Cos. Go Shopping?

Will Cash-rich Chip Cos. Go Shopping? — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:55:22 +0000

[...] chips could prove to be likelier buys, however, especially as Intel gears up to release Larrabee, its x86-based graphics chip. (Related Research from GigaOM Pro, subscription required: How 3-D TV Will Go From Hasseloff to [...]

By: jct

jct — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:20:18 +0000

i believe that this will just be a new integrated graphics card, it will just be better since Intel’s current IGU is somewhat lacking the bare average of power to take on today’s common applications, i mean even Mac switched to Nvidia. OMG!

By: Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM

Graphics Go Mainstream - GigaOM — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:02:24 +0000

[...] 111 million GPUs were shipped, compared with 91 million shipped during the same period last year. Nvidia, Intel and AMD are the top makers of [...]

By: Accelerators: It’s all about the programming : business|bytes|genes|molecules

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:21:17 +0000

[...] Intel’s Larrabee Aims to Take on Nvidia and AMD [...]

By: AndrewZela

AndrewZela — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:48:35 +0000

Adding more multi-core compute is not what we need.

Current trends in microprocessor evolution indicate that more and more applications will become memory-bound and be unable to benefit from the ample compute resources offered by the next generation of computers.

This increasing disparity between a system’s compute capabilities and the available memory bandwidth needed to fully utilize that compute is the real problem.

Until that is solved, we’re not addressing the real bottleneck for improving application performance.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:35 +0000

Sorry. I retract the previous comment. Apparently Larrabee is just a multicore CPU trying to be a GPU. Well, that does seem like a recipe for failure. I wonder if Nvidia’s Huang knew this all along — making his anti-Larrabee rant less about bravado/marketing and more about plain incredulity.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:28:09 +0000

There is certainly a good chance that Larrabee will be a failure, but I don’t think you understand what it is. It is not a multicore CPU trying to do the work of a GPU; it is an actual GPU that just happens to be x86 compatible. Will it actually be a good GPU from a price/performance perspective? We’ll have to wait and see.