Star Unheralded Larrabee Plots AMD, Nvidia Takedown
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 19:59 UTC, submitted by borker
Intel A shadowy organization called Larrabee Development Group has set a most ambitious goal: unseating AMD/ATI and Nvidia as the largest producers of high-end graphics chips. And it might just succeed. It may seem unfathomable for an unknown such as Larrabee to knock off two of the most powerful processor companies. That is until you realize that Larrabee is little more than a weak disguise for Intel. The chip giant has, in fact, ramped up its graphics efforts in recent weeks to create a product code-named Larrabee theoretically capable of besting AMD and Nvidia's best kit.
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RE: It makes sense
by makc on Sat 9th Dec 2006 11:09 UTC in reply to "It makes sense"
makc
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2006-01-11

Actually GPUs *are* multicore processors. Let's say they are "RISC" somehow ;)

And I'd add: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html

C extension framework for general programming on the GPU. Looks quite more comfortable than writing the shaders and reinventing addressing schemes for gpgpu ;)

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