intel larrabee : 5+1 things you did not know

[Chinmoy]

As the battle for the number of cores increases, Intel has bigger plans in mind. We all have probably heared about the Intel’s new GPU larrabee by now. Well, here are a few facts about the larrabee ::

* Larrabee is NOT a GPU. Yes. It is a codename for a CPU microarchitecture. Larrabee is a multi-core microarchitecture like the duo and the quad. It is based on the pentium P54c and has been designed to cater to different sections of users based on their processing usage. Thus each category of users gets different number of cores as per needs.
* The larrabee will have atleast 8 cores per die with each one having it’s own L1 cache and sharing a huge L2 cache pool of 256 kb for each core. The L2 cache will facilitate inter-core communication and if necessary, a core can lock some part of the L2 cache for streaming data.
* It will be based on the x86 architecture, thus compatible with the greater part of the software world.
* It has a “Fixed Functional Unit” which can be programmed to implement DirectX or OpenGL. Here comes the GPU probabilities. The “Fixed Functional Unit” can also be used to implement hardware encryption on a server.

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[Turk4n]

Well, intel+GPU = ****.
Pure facts, however the CPU thing seems good enough to be true, hope the future stores good hope for this. Plus hopefully it won't cost too much

[Chinmoy]

well, cost is the biggest factor, but for other things, we can have so much more to do with a CPU, simply else than micro-controlling the system!