The Siggraph industry conference starts on August 11 and it will take place in Los Angeles. It is said that Intel will give us technical details about their new microprocessor family called Larrabee. These new chips will compete against NVIDIA and ATI on the computer graphics market, but those will also perform a lot of other computing tasks.
Specialists say that the Larrabee will have between 16 and 48 cores compatible with the standard x86 instruction set, and at first looks it seems like all these cores could not compete against next-gen NVIDIA and ATI microprocessors that will feature 256 and 800 cores respectively.
The key for Intel’s Larrabee stands in their “right-hand turn” strategy and in the chip architecture that they prepared as they learned something from the 432 or the Itanium designs - “This is on the level of the 432 or the Itanium”, said Larrabee’s chief architect Doug Carmean.
We will have to wait until next week to find out more about Larrabee which is expected to be released in late 2009 or early 2010.
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