Intel's Larrabee Delayed Indefinitely
Intel officials say that Larrabee is being delayed indefinitely.
This past weekend Intel announced that its plans for the graphics processor codenamed 'Larrabee' have been put on hold. According to Reuters, Intel reps cited delays in the project that would make 'Larrabee' uncompetitive.
Intel's Nick Knupffer said yesterday that the company had decided to delay plans for the graphics card because Larrabee's silicon and software development are behind where it had hoped they would be at this point in time. Knupffer went on to say that Intel's first Larrabee project would be used as a software development platform for both graphic and high performance computing.
We've been hearing about Larrabee for almost three years so hearing the whole thing has been shelved is a bit of a shock. Intel first began discussing the project in April of 2007. Over the last two and a half years, working samples were shown and the company promised a 2009 launch, later delayed to a 2010 launch. Today a question mark hangs over Intel's plans to take on Nvidia and AMD in the graphics market. Intel says it plans to discuss Larrabee again in 2010.
"While we are disappointed that the product is not yet where we expected, we remain committed to delivering world-class many-core graphics products to our customers," Knupffer said, according to PCMag. "Additional plans for discrete graphics products will be discussed some time in 2010."
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I guess it CAN'T run Crysis.
I guess it CAN'T run Crysis.
I heard the project was scrapped altogether. Link.
I wanted to run a 4P motherboard running four hexacore i9's with 8 sockets for 48 core Larrabees.
Oh well...
Can it be done later?
HKMG, BW limitations on newer gpus and getting a huge bump in next iteration of LRB will decide if we ever see it in a discrete form, as well as the new fusion type products as well
it might be unfortunate, but in the end, not unexpected. Ati has shown what you need to make to win the gpu market. They have pushed the market this time and Intel just couldn't compare after the 4800 first and now the 5800, it's just a bridge too far.
Let's hope nvidia can get some good 300 products out soon.
Unless Intel figured something out that ATI/Nvidia has not, it'll never work.
Intel, why dont you stick to your corner making CPU's and leave the graphics business to the grown ups.
I don't think the idea is dead, might make for a beefy co-processing board for specialist apps. Depends on how well the direct compute thing goes I suppose. I wonder how difficult it would have been to software interface it to OpenGL or DirectX, graphic drivers have never been a strong point with them.
You never know, perhaps they'll switch to using those 10GHz P4 they promised. Mind you having the equivalent of a small sun in the case might not be good for global warming...