May
26
Larrabee Processor In desktop and mobile PCs - Computer News
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The company Intel, according to official statements made during the spring forum for developers IDF 2008 in Shanghai, plans this year to provide a vector graphics processor architecture Larrabee. The main advantages of solutions lie in its universality - processor will be able to serve not only traditional instruction, all characteristic of graphic chips, but will support x86-instruction. In doing so, Larrabee will be able to perform the calculation and game physics, and even be productive enough for rendering 3D-scenes method of tracing rays, and therefore promises to be a first step towards realistic stunning three-dimensional images. Thanks to its unique capabilities first graphics processors means Intel will be an excellent competition with the market leader in computer graphics - AMD / ATI and NVIDIA.
But beyond the architectural features of special interest the public cause Intel plans to issue Larrabee processor to the world market. According to the latest figures, promising new debuted in the second half of 2009 at IDF 2009, to be held in San Francisco. However, the company will start winning graphic market with server computers sector, but only six months after the official release decisions on the basis of Larrabee become available and users of personal computers as desktop, and mobile systems. Along with Intel Larrabee company will issue a set of system logic sixth series and a new platform for mobile computers.But the question remains open about the number of processor cores from Larrabee - according to available data, their number will vary from four to twenty-four. This now allows assess the performance of graphics chips in 1 teraflops, and not the last role in such a high computing power will play a memory subsystem - it is expected that developers decide to use Intel chips standard GDDR5, connected to the processor through 1024 - bit bus. Thus, the capacity of the interface is astronomical 1 terabytes / second. Note that the Larrabee architecture design allows extremely complex chips, consisting of hundreds and even thousands of nuclei - the case remains only for the practical realization of such an impressive building.
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