Monday, August 4, 2008

Larabee is an architectural convergence of CPU and GPU

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10005391-64.html

So, what is Larrabee's market potential? Today, the graphics chip market is approaching 400 million units a year and has consolidated into a handful of suppliers. "And of that population, two suppliers, ATI and Nvidia, own 98 percent of the discrete GPU business." according to Peddie.
"And the trend line indicates a flattening to decline in the business...However, Intel is no light-weight start up, and to enter the market today a company has to have a major infrastructure, deep IP (intellectual property), and marketing prowess--Intel has all that and more," Peddie said.

Larrabee signifies CPU and GPU parallelism

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