Intel Cancels Larrabee
As we reported back in March, Larrabee’s future was uncertain. However, it was not canceled because of legal issues. Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker has been working for many years on Larrabee, a chip with dozens of cores for processing graphics. It was Intel’s second major effort to break into high-end graphics so as to compete directly with NVIDIA and AMD’s ATi. Today, Intel has officially canceled the consumer version of Larrabee, as first reported by SemiAccurate.
“Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we had hoped to be at this point in the project,” according to Nick Knuppfler, Intel’s spokesman. “Larrabee will not be a consumer product.” However, it is not totally dead. But it is so far behind and evidently so under-performing for consumer graphics that it will go back to R&D so that Intel can continue to work on stand-alone graphics designs.
Larrabee will instead be used as a software development platform for internal and external use. Larrabee was originally expected to appear in 2008 and was intended to compete with discrete graphics chips from NVIDIA and ATI. Intel would not give a projected date for the Larrabee software development kit and is only saying that we will hear more about it next year.
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