Intel Larrabee graphic chip announced

Intel Larrabee graphic chip announced

Intel has given out some details on their upcoming Larrabee graphics chip.

The company said that this would be a standalone product which puts the company in direct competition with graphics card maker Nvidia and AMD ATI.

Intel said that the chip would be based on the universal Intel x86 architecture.

First of the products would be targeted at the personal computer market.

Intel already has a big presence in the integrated graphics segment.

Larry Seiler, a senior principal engineer in Intel’s Visual Computing Group spoke about this new chip: “The thing we need is an architecture that combines the full programmability of the CPU with the kinds of parallelism and other special capabilities of graphics processors. And that architecture is Larrabee.”

He added: “It is not a GPU as many have mistakenly described it, but it can do most graphics functions.”

Intel had this to say about this new chip: “It looks like a GPU and acts like a GPU but actually what it’s doing is introducing a large number of x86 cores into your PC.”