Items tagged with 'Larrabee'

Intel Demos Larrabee Processor Live at IDF

Intel Demos Larrabee Processor Live at IDF

During today's high performance computing workstation and server breakout at IDF, Intel took the opportunity to provide a live demonstration of their Larabee technology today in a high performance workstation showcase.  Though we're not completely sure we weren't just seeing a demonstration of the Larrabee instruction... Read More
NVIDIA's Road Ahead: Ion, Tegra and The Future of The Company

NVIDIA's Road Ahead: Ion, Tegra and The Future of The Company

NVIDIA has built its brand and reputation as a GPU designer since the company was founded in 1993, but recent comments by the company have implied that it believes platforms like Tegra and ION will be key revenue generators in the future. We've previously discussed NVIDIA's ongoing emphasis on the GPU as a massively parallel... Read More
Chip Transition Opens Door For NVIDIA Ion

Chip Transition Opens Door For NVIDIA Ion

It's pretty obvious that NVIDIA understands the opportunity that's in front of them, but just in case anyone is oblivious, Research and Markets is making sure the point is clear. With the CPU becoming less and less important (and the GPU, hardware encoders and broadband speeds gaining in importance), there's a huge opening... Read More
Intel Reveals More Larrabee Architecture Details

Intel Reveals More Larrabee Architecture Details

FIRST DETAILS ON A FUTURE INTEL DESIGN CODENAMED ‘LARRABEE’ Intel Corporation is presenting a paper at the SIGGRAPH 2008 industry conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 that describes features and capabilities of its first-ever forthcoming “many-core” blueprint or architecture codenamed “Larrabee.”  Details unveiled... Read More
Intel Showcases Dunnington, Nehalem and Larrabee

Intel Showcases Dunnington, Nehalem and Larrabee

In an impromptu pre-IDF press briefing today, Intel disclosed a wealth of new information regarding its roadmap product efforts, upcoming multi-core processors and their associated platforms.  The discussion, chaired by the Senior VP of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, even covered additional detail... Read More
Intel Showcases Dunnington, Nehalem and Larrabee Processors

Intel Showcases Dunnington, Nehalem and Larrabee Processors

In an impromptu pre-IDF press briefing today, Intel disclosed a wealth of new information regarding its roadmap product efforts, upcoming multi-core processors and their associated platforms.  The discussion, chaired by the Senior VP of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, even... Read More
GDDR5: Hello Larrabee?

GDDR5: Hello Larrabee?

While GDDR4 is still working on becoming the standard for high-end graphics cards, it looks like GDDR5 is already being sampled.  So what is new with GDDR5, well all we have are rumors but a key one is cyclic redundancy checks or CRC.  Perhaps this will turn out to be a sort of 'automatic' throttle for self-overclocking... Read More