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Looks like I get to post this before anyone else because I caught the forums coming back up . . . yay me?
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=659
'nuff said. Not sure if I agree with the article's assessment of the situation, but it certainly is an odd development. It seems to me that Intel would try to market Larrabee products to somebody, somewhere, even if it was infuriatingly difficult to code for it and/or not up to desired performance levels. With Intel's fab advantage, you'd think they could just lowball on price to get it out the door to some HPC customers. It's clear that they are rolling out silicon, but in the capacity that the above article indicates, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to a layman like me. Software development partners? Are they going to use this in-house for projects that will never be made public? It's not like anyone will have production Larrabee hardware to run anything coded to take advantage of it, at least not yet. Maybe this will help Intel produce more robust compilers for Larrabee in the future once they're comfortable selling "the next Larrabee".
Theories regarding possible anti-trust issues or issues related to their recent settlement with AMD are difficult, if not impossible, for me to assess, so I don't know what I can contribute in that department.
Anyway, so much for Larrabeast.
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=659
'nuff said. Not sure if I agree with the article's assessment of the situation, but it certainly is an odd development. It seems to me that Intel would try to market Larrabee products to somebody, somewhere, even if it was infuriatingly difficult to code for it and/or not up to desired performance levels. With Intel's fab advantage, you'd think they could just lowball on price to get it out the door to some HPC customers. It's clear that they are rolling out silicon, but in the capacity that the above article indicates, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to a layman like me. Software development partners? Are they going to use this in-house for projects that will never be made public? It's not like anyone will have production Larrabee hardware to run anything coded to take advantage of it, at least not yet. Maybe this will help Intel produce more robust compilers for Larrabee in the future once they're comfortable selling "the next Larrabee".
Theories regarding possible anti-trust issues or issues related to their recent settlement with AMD are difficult, if not impossible, for me to assess, so I don't know what I can contribute in that department.
Anyway, so much for Larrabeast.
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