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Intel has announced its refusal to develop a consumer version of its promising general purpose GPU chip Larrabee.
Developments, however, are not completely abandoned yet: Larrabee will be used as a platform for developing software, and also as a component of high-performance computers. But to buy a video card for a home computer, built on the basis of a large number of x86 processors, is not shining for us in the foreseeable future.
It is a pity that the revolution in the field of graphics accelerators failed (for now), but this development was expected: constant development delays have already postponed the chip output for a year, and in the semiconductor industry a year is usually forever. At the same time, it is not surprising that such an ambitious project could not be brought to the final product and mass production immediately. Surely, if progress is achieved when using GPGPU in high-performance computer systems, Intel will return to the development of the chip for "ordinary people".
Interestingly, only two months ago, Intel employees told Habré about the soon appearance of the chip on sale. Interestingly, they are so well in compliance with the NDA or is it the company's policy - not to share with its employees working on the project on its closure?
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Developments, however, are not completely abandoned yet: Larrabee will be used as a platform for developing software, and also as a component of high-performance computers. But to buy a video card for a home computer, built on the basis of a large number of x86 processors, is not shining for us in the foreseeable future.
It is a pity that the revolution in the field of graphics accelerators failed (for now), but this development was expected: constant development delays have already postponed the chip output for a year, and in the semiconductor industry a year is usually forever. At the same time, it is not surprising that such an ambitious project could not be brought to the final product and mass production immediately. Surely, if progress is achieved when using GPGPU in high-performance computer systems, Intel will return to the development of the chip for "ordinary people".
Interestingly, only two months ago, Intel employees told Habré about the soon appearance of the chip on sale. Interestingly, they are so well in compliance with the NDA or is it the company's policy - not to share with its employees working on the project on its closure?
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sources 1 , 2
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/77491/
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