Intel Larrabee cancelled

[Freddie1980]

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It's disappointing to read as it leaves us back at square one with the duopoly of AMD/Nvidia competing for the mid and top end of the video card card market. Although it is disappointing when you think about it this must have been on the cards for a while. Anand Lal Shimpi from Anandtech sums it up well.

Intel hasn't said much about why it was canceled other than it was behind schedule. Intel recently announced that an overclocked Larrabee was able to deliver peak performance of 1 teraflop. Something AMD was able to do in 2008 with the Radeon HD 4870. (Update: so it's not exactly comparable, the point being that Larrabee is outgunned given today's GPU offerings).

With the Radeon HD 5870 already at 2.7 TFLOPS peak, chances are that Larrabee wasn't going to be remotely competitive, even if it came out today. We all knew this, no one was expecting Intel to compete at the high end. Its agents have been quietly talking about the uselessness of > $200 GPUs for much of the past two years, indicating exactly where Intel views the market for Larrabee's first incarnation.

Thanks to AMD's aggressive rollout of the Radeon HD 5000 series, even at lower price points Larrabee wouldn't have been competitive - delayed or not.

You can read his full blog about Larrabee here.

 

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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18086959

 

[Cold Fusion]

Welcome to last week.


Sorry couldn't help myself

According to the very biased, the very toight, Semi-accurate. Intel are very much still after making a GPU.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/04/intel-kills-consumer-larrabee-focuses-future-variants

 

[Freddie1980]

Welcome to last week.


Sorry couldn't help myself

According to the very biased, the very toight, Semi-accurate. Intel are very much still after making a GPU.

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/04/intel-kills-consumer-larrabee-focuses-future-variants

Well from a less biased source anandtech reckon although the consumer card has been junked for time being Intel will still continue on with the R&D side of Larrabee and we may well see something in 2011.

 

[thebandit]

I think the advances (3 Tflops +) by ATi and nvidia have caught Intel on the hop, didn't they originally target Larrabee at 1Tflop ? back when they thought they would get the chip out this would have been quite something but these days mid range card achieve that.

 

[Freddie1980]

I think the advances (3 Tflops +) by ATi and nvidia have caught Intel on the hop, didn't they originally target Larrabee at 1Tflop ? back when they thought they would get the chip out this would have been quite something but these days mid range card achieve that.

1 Tflop would have been fine and dandy IF they had launched the card on time. The trouble for Intel is they couldn't get all the hardware and software ready in time which meant delays and in the end AMD doubles the performance of it's cards rendering Larabee obsolete overnight.