Intel's Larrabee Delayed Indefinitely
Intel officials say that Larrabee is being delayed indefinitely.
This past weekend Intel announced that its plans for the graphics processor codenamed 'Larrabee' have been put on hold. According to Reuters, Intel reps cited delays in the project that would make 'Larrabee' uncompetitive.
Intel's Nick Knupffer said yesterday that the company had decided to delay plans for the graphics card because Larrabee's silicon and software development are behind where it had hoped they would be at this point in time. Knupffer went on to say that Intel's first Larrabee project would be used as a software development platform for both graphic and high performance computing.
We've been hearing about Larrabee for almost three years so hearing the whole thing has been shelved is a bit of a shock. Intel first began discussing the project in April of 2007. Over the last two and a half years, working samples were shown and the company promised a 2009 launch, later delayed to a 2010 launch. Today a question mark hangs over Intel's plans to take on Nvidia and AMD in the graphics market. Intel says it plans to discuss Larrabee again in 2010.
"While we are disappointed that the product is not yet where we expected, we remain committed to delivering world-class many-core graphics products to our customers," Knupffer said, according to PCMag. "Additional plans for discrete graphics products will be discussed some time in 2010."
What are your thoughts on Intel's decision to delay Larrabee? Let us know in the comments below!
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predictable though... Everyone said the same thing in 2008 - by the time they finalize the architecture and perhaps write some SDK for it - the market will move forward so much that it won't be competitive anymore... I think Intel was just playing with new architecture and came to a conclusion that it will be soooo easy that they might as well sell it in 2009. Well, they were wrong... Typical Intel though... Instead of innovating - they just multiply number of transistors and wrap everything around x86... Biggest mistake in the world... If Intel would actually innovate - they could easily design a multicore CPU that would not have to be backwards compatible... In fact - what I have been saying for the past few years... x86 architecture is way too old to be simply fixed by "upgrading". Intel needs to get together with Wozniak, Torvalds and Microsoft and design a fresh new architecture that would last for another 30 years. Unify the architecture in terms of available buses, instruction sets, power management, and create something that is simple, reliable and fast... Don't worry about the cost - if it's good - and Microsoft makes windows on it - it will sell and eventually become cheap.
Let's innovate - not upgrade... And only Intel & Microsoft have enough money to do it... With Wozniak's hardware approach and Torvalds software approach... it could actually work and become a platform of the future...
Ok... I will wake up now... miracles DO NOT happen...
Useless! I didn't get a 5850 on launch cos I was holding off for this, now I've got to go and get a 5850 + pay extra! Grrrrr! Ah well, time to put the 4830 on ebay and make the dx11 plunge now.
The power of graphics cards double or so every year or 2, seriously even if they were on time it wouldnt be competetive. Intel couldnt figure thhat out until now?
Like everyone said, we were only waiting for it to be official. It wouldn't be competitive anyway. Intel is not used to being underdog. Just do some more research and not only multiply-add cores to the chip (for the few who get it). Intel will be more than welcome in this new market since i'm not the only who thinks they didn't start yet in the graphics accelerated chips (gma is a deceleration card).
This was never gonna happen... the simple fact is that raster will always be waaaaay faster than raytracing for an equivalently good looking scene, so it isn't even worth considering until performance is no longer an issue (ie not for the foreseeable future).
Even movie productions with plenty of time and render farms often still use raster for the very same reasons.
I Lol'd, got 2x 5850's at launch thinking that larabee was a joke even then.
dx11 support today is about as useful as.... a Larrabee!
amd are better than intel.AMD=king INTEL=poop