Intel 's Larrabee GPU Piles on the Cores

By Nick Mokey
August 04, 2008

Look out Nvidia: Intel has announced plans for a new high-end graphics processor with more than 10 cores that could significantly change the GPU game.

Ailing graphics giant ATI may not be giving Nvidia much competition in the GPU market these days, but another big chip maker is stepping up to the plate in a bid for gamer dollars. Intel, which already produces modest integrated graphics chips for many budget machines, announced Monday that a multi-core graphics chip is on the way, and it’s quite different from anything the industry has ever seen.

The Larrabee processor will borrow the same multiple-core approach that Intel has used in its CPUs for years, but take it to a new extreme with a least ten cores packed onto a single chip. The end result, they say, will be a gaming experience unrivalled by anything on ...

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