First Die-Shot Photograph of Intel Larrabee

http://img2.pict.com/51/47/27/8651f4...eedieshot6.jpg

discussion
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=54144

apparently there are 32 cores in this chip, plus a number of other
structures / functional units

On May 14, 2:58*am, Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
wrote:
> NV55 wrote:
> >http://img2.pict.com/51/47/27/8651f4...0/53NzS/intell...
>
> > discussion
> >http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=54144
>
> Quite nice thread actually!
>
>
>
> > apparently there are 32 cores in this chip, plus a number of other
> > structures / functional units
>
> Assuming Intel can get this to work nearly as well as Mike Abrash' and
> Tom Forsyth's talks at GDC indicated, it looks a lot like a single-chip
> solution for a cheap-to-manufacture box with very decent 3D performance.
>
> Terje
> --
> - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"



Yes. I could imagine low-end PCs using a single 32 core Larrabee chip
(later 48 or 64 cores) having very nice 3D performance (2 TFLOPs)

Then I could see higher-end PCs, with 2 Larrabee chips, perhaps 4,
as high-end gaming rigs and other machines as personal supercomputers
--much like what Nvidia does with their GeForce-based Telsa chips.

I could also see Larrabee, or perhaps Larrabee2, being the heart of a
next generation game console from Sony or Microsoft, or less likely,
Apple or SEGA.

And like with IBM's CELL in Roadrunner, I could see Intel getting a
contract to use Larrabee in a next-gen record breaking Supercomputer.

Terje Mathisen wrote:
> NV55 wrote:
>> http://img2.pict.com/51/47/27/8651f4...eedieshot6.jpg
>>
>>
>> discussion
>> http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=54144
>
> Quite nice thread actually!
>>
>> apparently there are 32 cores in this chip, plus a number of other
>> structures / functional units
>
> Assuming Intel can get this to work nearly as well as Mike Abrash' and
> Tom Forsyth's talks at GDC indicated, it looks a lot like a single-chip
> solution for a cheap-to-manufacture box with very decent 3D performance.
>
> Terje

Or a steaming pile of **** that wastes everyones time. But other than
that, yah.

Morten Reistad <> writes:

> We may even see advances in sensing, good enough for cars to have
> some self-steering ability, but they probably won't rival horses
> yet.
>

*Some* self steering ability has been around for a while now:

http://youtube.com/?v=xlVx4Dhglkg

(see about 4:40 )

That was 1994... similar systems are in production now
(eg. http://ir.trw.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=345841). And no, they
don't rival horses just yet

(I worked peripherally on the Lucas/Jaguar project, and was very
involved its follow-ups and on the TRW production one)

Cheers,
Martin

--

TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology
http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html

NV55 wrote:
> On May 14, 2:58 am, Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no">
> wrote:
>> NV55 wrote:
>>> http://img2.pict.com/51/47/27/8651f4...0/53NzS/intell...
>>> discussion
>>> http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=54144
>> Quite nice thread actually!
>>
>>
>>
>>> apparently there are 32 cores in this chip, plus a number of other
>>> structures / functional units
>> Assuming Intel can get this to work nearly as well as Mike Abrash' and
>> Tom Forsyth's talks at GDC indicated, it looks a lot like a single-chip
>> solution for a cheap-to-manufacture box with very decent 3D performance.
>>
>> Terje
>> --
>> - <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
>> "almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"
>
>
>
> Yes. I could imagine low-end PCs using a single 32 core Larrabee chip
> (later 48 or 64 cores) having very nice 3D performance (2 TFLOPs)
>
> Then I could see higher-end PCs, with 2 Larrabee chips, perhaps 4,
> as high-end gaming rigs and other machines as personal supercomputers
> --much like what Nvidia does with their GeForce-based Telsa chips.
>
> I could also see Larrabee, or perhaps Larrabee2, being the heart of a
> next generation game console from Sony or Microsoft, or less likely,
> Apple or SEGA.
>
> And like with IBM's CELL in Roadrunner, I could see Intel getting a
> contract to use Larrabee in a next-gen record breaking Supercomputer.

Yeah and Skynet and all those machines....