Intel Offers Details On Larrabee

摘要

Intel presented a paper at SIGGRAPH 2008 that described the features and capabilities of its first-ever forthcoming "many-core" blueprint/architecture codenamed Larrabee. Details unveiled in the paper include a new approach to the software rendering 3D pipeline, a many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model, and performance analysis for several applications. Intel is developing Larrabee separately from its current line of integrated graphics accelerators. The first product based on Larrabee will target the PC graphics market and is expected in 2010, possibly earlier. The card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with Nvidia's GeForce and AMD's ATI Radeon products. Larrabee will also compete in the GP-GPU and high-performance computing markets.