Intel's Larrabee Delayed Indefinitely

[JMcEntegart]

Intel officials say that Larrabee is being delayed indefinitely.

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[vertigo_2000]

Intel NOT inside.

I guess it CAN'T run Crysis.

 

[cliffro]

Not disappointed, not excited either. Gives nvidia some breathing room though.

 

[tester24]

HA! that's rich... World class and intel graphics really shouldn't be in the same sentence together.

 

[San Pedro]

Not Surprised.

 

[PrangeWay]

Anyone who is shocked by this was denying reality. When they announced it THREE years ago it was "as fast as currenty high-end", than 1.5 years ago it was "about 80% as fast as currenty high-end (pre 4870/260&280). Now we're into the 5000's and Fermi is in 3 months, what are they 40%? At probably higher cost? This was dead 2.5 years ago, that Intel finally admitted it is the only shocking part...

 

[theubersmurf]

[citation][nom]San Pedro[/nom]Not Surprised.[/citation]You just violated your own rule.

I heard the project was scrapped altogether. Link.

 

[pullmyfinger123]

looks like that 1.2B cash settlement with AMD must have consumed all of Larrabee's budget...

 

[theubersmurf]

[citation][nom]tester24[/nom]HA! that's rich... World class and intel graphics really shouldn't be in the same sentence together.[/citation]Or rather, you just violated your own rule...not san Pedro.

 

[anamaniac]

=(

I wanted to run a 4P motherboard running four hexacore i9's with 8 sockets for 48 core Larrabees.
Oh well...

 

[mirkos]

I m sure that Intel is co-op with Blizzard to create this product. It should be ready two days before Diablo 3 and Duke Nukem simultaneous launch.

 

[mindless728]

this is unfortunate, i kind of wanted to use a GPU with x86 instruction set, though i wouldn't use it for gaming, just programming

 

[mitch074]

It does look like Nvidia was right belittling Larrabee...

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Too many mountains to climb, on new approach, new never been done drivers, new driver teams in a fast moving market Intel has no imput in.
Can it be done later?
HKMG, BW limitations on newer gpus and getting a huge bump in next iteration of LRB will decide if we ever see it in a discrete form, as well as the new fusion type products as well

 

[trinix]

I have to agree, not really surprised, after the last delay, they would just be put even further back and nothing to shoot for.

it might be unfortunate, but in the end, not unexpected. Ati has shown what you need to make to win the gpu market. They have pushed the market this time and Intel just couldn't compare after the 4800 first and now the 5800, it's just a bridge too far.

Let's hope nvidia can get some good 300 products out soon.

 

[jonpaul37]

I really don't know how Intel thought this was going to be a good idea. They really have nothing to R&D off of. Nvidia & ATI both have their previous generations to use as a starting point for their next gen products. Intel has nothing more than on-board graphics with horrible code.

Unless Intel figured something out that ATI/Nvidia has not, it'll never work.

 

[climber]

Look like Intel followed the adage "stick to what you're good at".

 

[back_by_demand]

Epic, epic FAIL

Intel, why dont you stick to your corner making CPU's and leave the graphics business to the grown ups.

 

[womble]

Well I imagine the general consensus will be 'no surprise whatsoever'. They have never had much expertise in the area and their lacklustre integrated GPUs have hardly come on in leaps and bounds over the years. A bit much to expect them to just wade in and trounce everyone. They have made some good CPUs, but really most of those are evolutions of designs they already had, not as if the Core Duo started from scratch.

I don't think the idea is dead, might make for a beefy co-processing board for specialist apps. Depends on how well the direct compute thing goes I suppose. I wonder how difficult it would have been to software interface it to OpenGL or DirectX, graphic drivers have never been a strong point with them.

You never know, perhaps they'll switch to using those 10GHz P4 they promised. Mind you having the equivalent of a small sun in the case might not be good for global warming...

 

[hixbot]

Here's the scoop: Intel finished designing the product, built a prototype, discovered it sucks compared to the competition, tossed it in the trash.

 

[Onus]

The math is really simple on this one. INTEL + GRAPHICS = FAIL. When has that not been true? Adding lots of MONEY on the left side of the equation just puts an EPIC on the right.

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Tough economy and budgets cuts are probably why this happened. Three years ago Intel had more play money to dump into this project to try and squeeze Nvidia to being more friendly in their competition game. I doubt Intel will completely give up to try and gain more market share in the GPU race. Who knows this could be some trial balloon and next week, Larrabee will ve suddenly revived again?

 

[mlopinto2k1]

I wonder if Intel reads any of the babble that goes on here over in the comments section of the news, on Toms Hardware? Maybe they would be inclined to just follow through with the damn thing and release it.

 

[Shadow703793]

Yeah but can it run *gets shot*.....

 

[sublifer]

I can hear the nvidia ceo now:

"na na na na boo boo, stick your head in doo doo! Told you so!"