07.12.2009 00:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Intel Cancelled its Initial Larrabee Chips

It has been a long time that Intel did not face a failure, as it was so far recording successes over the past months: Core CPU, ATOm CPU, etc. They seem to have failed to deliver the first initial version of true graphical chipset, aka the integrated system known as Larrabee.Announced two years ago, the system was supposed to revolutionize 3D rendering by replacing the GPU by several x86 cores. While it might have looked good on paper, this technology has been delayed several times and performance levels did not reach those expected.So, it is not surprising to learn that Intel decided to cancel production and business availability of its first version of the system it was working on since 3 years. Officially Intel did not drop the project, but it will take more time to be fully developed, leaving free space for ATI/AMD and NVIDIA ant their respective GPUs. Both GPU founders might then with their GPGPU compete with Intel, even though here again it seems that expectations were much higher than fi

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