On August 12, 2008, Intel will be presenting a paper on their future "many-core" processor architecture at SIGGRAPH 2008. Codenamed Larrabee, the new architecture will have many cores and feature a new approach to 3D graphics rendering. Yes, you read that right. Larrabee will introduce a new software rendering model for 3D graphics. In other words, Larrabee will mark Intel's first serious foray into 3D graphics since their last discrete graphics chip, the Intel i740. If Intel Larrabee works as predicted, the days of discrete graphics may be limited. Link : The Intel Larrabee Processor Tech Report
It will be interesting to see if the architecture scales as well as Intel are claiming, seeing as 1. the current generation of Nvidia graphic chips have ~200 pipelines 2. the network ring sturcture of the interconnects is not going to scale as well as a point to point network would have
I share you sceptism. Would be great if AMD released some additional info on how Fusion is progressing.
Yeah, from the limited stuff we were able to see, it looks like they only tested up to 48 Larrabee cores. That doesn't mean the final chip will not have more BUT it sure is a far cry from the number of stream processors new GPUs have.
