Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Intel's Larrabee processor, which the company plans to demonstrate next year, will take the chipmaker into the high-graphics market, where it will compete against products from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices's ATI unit.
Paul Otellini, president and chief executive of Intel, said during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum this week that integrated graphics and CPU cores would be in Larrabee, codename for Intel's first tera-scale processor. Larrabee is set for release by 2010.
Larrabee is expected to compete against graphics processors from Nvidia and AMD's ATI. Intel, however, also is positioning the chip for scientific research, data mining, visualization, analytics, and other highly computing-intensive applications.
Intel has said that teraflop products based on the Larrabee platform will be based on a highly parallel architecture that's easily programmable and will scale to trillions of floating point operations (teraflops) per second.
In 2009, AMD plans to ship the first of its Fusion chips, which merge graphic and CPU cores. AMD plans to eventually release models for desktops and notebooks.
By: DocMemory
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