Intel's Larrabee Cancelled

[Josh]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/12/07/intel-larrabee-cancelled/1

 

I called this one a while ago:

http://www.3d-test.c...leadwerks_1.htm

 

And more recently here:

http://leadwerks.blo...cuda-fails.html

[afecelis]

holy cow! Josh, you're a prophet!

 

EDIT: That 3dtest interview was pretty interesting as well. I hadn't read it.

[TylerH]

Lol. So much for everyone having games with shiny balls and lackluster infinite reflections.

[macklebee]

Lol. So much for everyone having games with shiny balls and lackluster infinite reflections.

 

note to self: come up with new game idea...

[Scott Richmond]

That bit-tech story is deceiving. Larrabee isn't canceled at all - Intel have a working prototype and according to 'on paper' tests its damn good. But it just isn't as good as the AMD or Nvidia solutions yet, not to mention consumer drivers, etc. So they have decided not to release it. I think many really expected this - Intel are the biggest and best CPU makers in the world, but its going to take them a few goes to think about reaching for the GPU crown, and I think thats where they over-estimated themselves.

We'll see Larrabee, don't you worry about that. Just expect a few fails first. Good to see Intel had the sense not to release their fail this time around.

[Josh]

"Larrabee will not be a consumer product."

[Scott Richmond]

Way to take the quote completely out of context Josh. The real quote is:

"Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we hoped to be at this point in the project. As a result, our first Larrabee product will not be launched as a standalone discrete graphics product."

 

Please note the highlighted keyword.

[carlb]

DJDD i think you will need to read all the other news on the nets not just bit-tech

as its delayed and part of it is canceled

 

so there is no enduser version of the card coming out only the pro side

which means a lot of us will not be able to get the card

[Scott Richmond]

DJDD i think you will need to read all the other news on the nets not just bit-tech

as its delayed and part of it is canceled

 

so there is no enduser version of the card coming out only the pro side

which means a lot of us will not be able to get the card

 

Thats my point carlb. Josh, and that news poster at Bit-Tech make it sound like Larrabee is dead. It is simply delayed. No more.

[carlb]

i will say it may as well be dead

from my contact in intel most of the team have been moved to other jobs.

[TylerH]

I e-mailed the Intel marketing manager who was heading up product management on Larabee, and she said that they were no longer pursuing Larabee as a consumer product, period.

[Scott Richmond]

I e-mailed the Intel marketing manager who was heading up product management on Larabee, and she said that they were no longer pursuing Larabee as a consumer product, period.

 

Well that's certainly interesting - The graphics market is simply huge and growing and I seriously doubt Intel are just going to let that be. Do you mind if you post the email here? I'd like to see exactly what was said.

[TylerH]

No, if I went posting e-mails around I wouldn't be extended this privileged anymore.

[Scott Richmond]

No, if I went posting e-mails around I wouldn't be extended this privileged anymore.

Fair enough. Well you'll have to excuse my skepticism - I very seriously doubt Intel is out of the game in terms of consumer space graphics. That notion just seems completely wrong in so many ways.

[carlb]

you do release intel has not made graphic from a long time

most of the graphic in the chipset is from powerVR

 

the last graphic they did was the old 740 so to start something from scratch was going to be hard and which

they found as have decided to stop for now

 

but i bet you see some of that stuff in other thing in time and they may come back to it next year

we have to wait and see

[Scott Richmond]

I realise that. But I don't doubt for a second that they'll stop. They can't stop, not if they want to catch AMD/Nvidia any time soon.

[carlb]

why do they need to catch up they have the bigest part of the graphic market

yes it true they have over 70% cry cry cry people with buy intel boards with graphic

 

so they dont need to do anything

ati and nvidia are the ones fighting to get more market and catch up with them

[Scott Richmond]

No. Thats 70% (or whatever the real value is) of the INTEGRATED market. Larrabee is targets at the actual graphics market. Intel wants that, wants it bad.

[carlb]

You wrong on that

as they did want it that bad they have had the chip out a year ago

 

but like i said we wait and see if they do come back great. if they dont means nothing

i dont care to be truthfully i have more them my own problem with all the diffrent dam chipset they do

that give me a right headache at work

[VicToMeyeZR]

Well I hope Intel just sticks with what they do best. Over priced CPU's.

 

For now I will stick with the half-priced and pretty much just as good AMD's.

[Josh]

I would not be surprised if 70% of computers have an Intel integrated graphics chip. Don't know if that is correct or not, but it sounds reasonable.

[VicToMeyeZR]

That's probably a reasonable number. Its very close if not. Pretty much any I have seen have them

[carlb]

it was the number not long ago for us on the system and boards we made and sold

it may change next year but at the moment sells have increased again for intel and lots of people want the H55 boards

 

and its not a good at all

[Josh]

Well, they're probably just going to write documents and use email for those machines.

[niv3k]

hmmm..seems like intel is having problems...just like nvidia..delay after delay.

 

what would we do if they were the only companies alive?

 

sure wouldn't have cheap fast cpu's like amd gives

 

sure wouldn't have cheap super fast gpu's like ati gives

 

that come out on the days they are told to be released.

 

computers would be pointless