Intel's Larrabee chip technology will help Intel earn a spot in the high-end graphics card market. Larrabee will be a template for a series of chips. Unlike processors which have two to four cores, Larrabee chips will have somewhere between 12 to 48. AMD and Nvidia already have graphics processor chips with several hundred cores, so Intel is facing substantial competition.
AMD and Nvidia naturally say Intel's graphics chips will not be able to outperform their own. They point out flaws, such as the fact that Intel will be using software to do a lot of the rendering. Besides the performance challenge, Intel is also needs to match the manufacturing cost and power consumption of current GPUs.
Larrabee's main selling point is that it is x86, and many programmers know how to take advantage of that technology.
Sourced from the Wall Street Journal; original article "Intel to Offer Details Of Chip Technology" by Don Clark
AMD and Nvidia naturally say Intel's graphics chips will not be able to outperform their own. They point out flaws, such as the fact that Intel will be using software to do a lot of the rendering. Besides the performance challenge, Intel is also needs to match the manufacturing cost and power consumption of current GPUs.
Larrabee's main selling point is that it is x86, and many programmers know how to take advantage of that technology.
Sourced from the Wall Street Journal; original article "Intel to Offer Details Of Chip Technology" by Don Clark
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