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Intel Lifts the Curtain on Larrabee

Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 at 5:00 PM by Malcolm

Intel representatives revealed some of the architectural details of the company's much talked-about Larrabee processor. The new design is the chipmaker's first manycore x86 platform and represents what could be described as a general-purpose, x86 vector processor, combining features from both GPUs and CPUs. The architecture is the culmination of more than three years of R&D accomplished under Intel's terascale research program.


Edited on: Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:02 PM

Posted in HPC (RSS)