It was considered that larrabee product in the series version will be occupied by the acceleration of three-dimensional graphic, but now Intel company intends to use entire potential of x86- compatible core of this solution for accelerating calculations. This did not interfere with Intel, however, demonstrating on IDF 2010 larrabee in the sphere of dynamic construction of three-dimensional scenes by the method of rays tracing.
Intel Representatives at the past session IDF even acknowledged that the appearance of graphic accelerators class larrabee is highly improbable. Intel graphic architectures chapter reported that the attempt to realize all functions of graphic chip at the program level failed: some functions are more expedient to realize at the hardware level in the form of specialized blocks.
Program acceleration, confessed by larrabee architecture, responded by a completely unsuccessful relationship of energy consumption and productivity. As result these accelerators will hardly become a discrete graphic card. At least, without serious architecture processing . Related Products :
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