Gelsinger says Larrabee will wipe the floor with CPGPU
INTEL GUNSLINGER Pat Gelsinger predicted graphics chip makers' CPGPU-powered parallel processing plans would end up nothing but a midly-interesting side-note in the history of computing.
Upstarts Nvidia and AMDs' feeble attempts would crumble under the "power of compatability", the man who once kicked our venerable founder said.
Having expounded at length of the subject of orifices that remain to be surmounted, in a cosy telephone chat with Europe's most high-powered hacks - and The INQ - organised to celebrate Intel's having been a chip maker for 40 years, Gelsinger poured scorn on attempts to promote the GPU as a parallel processing platform.
When fuller histories of computing than those told today are written, the likes of Cuda and CTM might just make it as barely interesting side-notes, he said.
"You'll see that what we're proposing with Larrabee may well the right answer long term." ยต
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Intels a great one to talk about compatibility....

Pentirum Pro anyone?

This is another one of those "if I say it enough times it just might come true"

....dream on Intel.
If AMD accepts CUDA (the hardware support is there) then Larrabee will have no chance.
Although this is not likely.
"Larrabee may well the the right answer long term"
That clearly means: Larrabee is not the right answer today :)
I would have never imagined that a high ranking official from Intel just said that! This was surely not signed off by the marketing guys at la Intella...
First of all games are the primary reason why graphic cards (will continue to) sell and Intels solution must succeed in the gaming market. Second of all there is zero legacy software for highly parallel x86 systems, so that argument is clearly invalid.
SomeThings Never End Nor Exist. Pillsbury Dough Boy Is One of Them.(HE-He) Producing RAW Sales In Hopes Round Smiling White Softies' Inside. It isn't.Wondra Is Only Option.

SaraLee Not That Great Ethier, EXCEPT Fudge Brownies. Here larrabee Too is Some Very Crumy Tobacco, Something Will finally Emerge & It Might Be Great in GPCPU Setting, Yet Its NOT That Broad of REAL Project, Just SCAM.Always Been That Way. In Fact, Barcelona Has Point, Larrabee Has No Point Except Take Monies From HOG Pit.
GingerBreadMan Told ME.
drashek
As a dev I don't want to target cuda or ctm. Intel gives me one standard that will be everywhere, even in very cheap machines. Unless you make a game it's a very bad decision to further segment your market based on the graphics card.
If you (Intel) can provide us a OS which would optimize your "Laughabee" LOL

then we will give it a shot, however, can it even handle the broken Window Me II (vista)?

is GPU dead? or is CPU dead?

can we build a PC without Mobo? 

can a PC operate with 1 single chip, minus all other crap?

the answer is NO, at lease not now or anytime soon!

so Intel, your theory is bullsh!t...

because by what you mean, a PC should have a complete makeover!

a mobo with 1 single chip, a CPGPU.

would we have an OS to go with that "theory"? 

the answer is NO

"Laughabee" better prove Nv wrong, i don't want to spend money on graphic cards anyway, but can "Laughabee" plays Crysis @ MAX setting 8xAA AF???

if the answer is NO, then Intel please, STFU, thank you very much.
Yes it's at least partially compatible, but what good is compatibility when it runs dog slow? At that point even a Pentium 4 starts looking good.

When you expend the herculean efforts to get the performance, you've thrown compatibility right out the window. Not to mention the raw flops of a GPU start looking good again.

Sounds kind of like Atom, too much power consumption to run on battery, not enough performance compared to other plugged in options.

Both end up in no man's land, way to go Intel.
So you come in with years of crappy integrated graphics pedigree and tell everyone you are the best... LOL Jokers, show the world something real and Better in graphics !!!
whitster: Remember Intel does raytracing! Which as you may know can do things rasterization can't like shadows, or reflections, or even refractions! And you get all of that with out those pesky dynamic objects, take particles for example. And it's so much faster too, just think with 32 Xeon processors you too can render raytraced images with the same speed that a Radeon X800 can; raytraced that is not rasterized.

Man I'm good, I should write for the Inq!