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Intel's Larrabee chip--in pictures
A depiction of Intel's future Larrabee graphics chip, one of the most important projects inside the world's largest chip manufacturer.
Intel's future Larrabee graphics chip is still just a PowerPoint presentation. But one worth noting because it's likely one of the most important projects inside the world's largest chip manufacturer.
That doesn't mean Larrabee will be a slam dunk. Intel has a checkered past in the discrete graphics chip market and this 10-year-old CNET article about Intel's 740 graphics processor reads eerily like some of the chatter about Intel's Larrabee today.
But Intel is older and presumably wiser now. (Though of course that remains to be seen.) Here's a quick look at how Intel depicts the future Larrabee architecture graphically.
Intel slide shows Larrabee with up to 48 cores
(Credit: Intel)
Larrabee packs separate scalar and vector processing units
(Credit: Intel)
Each Larrabee core has 256KB of level-2 cache
(Credit: Intel)
Workload in games
(Credit: Intel)
