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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:31 am Post subject:

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The Return of Intel's Pentium MMX

Earlier today we learned that Intel is already heavily pitching its Larrabee technology to partners, but the technology foundation largely remains a mystery. German publication heise.de now provides more clues with a rather interesting note that Larrabee is built on Intel’s nearly two decade-old P5 architecture.

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Intel's Larrabee GPU based on secret Pentagon tech, sorta

In a recent interview with German tech site heise.de, Intel's Pat Gelsinger let slip some interesting information that I've been sitting on since last year, but haven't published: the processor cores that make up Intel's forthcoming Larrabee GPU are based on the original Pentium core design. Larrabee is, in essence, a bunch of P54C (i.e. pre-MMX) Pentium cores that have been enhanced with very wide vector floating-point resources and ganged together to make the brains of a flexible, x86-based GPU.

MMX? Pre-MMX?

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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject:

Desktop Nehalem prices start at $284 :-

http://www.hkepc.com/?id=1447&fs=c1h

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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:18 am Post subject:

Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion :-

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Intel announced its second quarter results (PDF) today, with numbers that beat analyst expectations and set revenue records for the company. Total Q2 revenue for 2008 was $9.5 billion, with an operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion, and earnings-per-share (EPS) of 28 cents. Total revenue fell two percent from the first quarter's results, but improved nine percent year-on-year, while net income rose by 11 percent compared to Q1 2008, and 25 percent compared to Q2 2007.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080715-intel-posts-record-breaking-q2-earnings.html

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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

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Larrabee doesn't need DirectX
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We're not sure how they're planning to implement this, nor do we know if it'll bring any real benefits. What it does bring is a lot of hassle for the game developers, as they'd have to write specific code to support Larrabee based products, which doesn't sound like it'll be a popular thing.

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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:59 am Post subject:

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Larrabee doesn't need DirectX
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We're not sure how they're planning to implement this, nor do we know if it'll bring any real benefits. What it does bring is a lot of hassle for the game developers, as they'd have to write specific code to support Larrabee based products, which doesn't sound like it'll be a popular thing.

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It's rumoured to support OpenGL in Linux though :-

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The good news though is that Ian Romanick has joined Intel. Ian will be serving as the "OpenGL guru" for Intel's Open-Source Technology Center (OTC) where he'll be working on improving their OpenGL support. Ian will be addressing OpenGL issues, working to get the GLX protocol working for buffer objects, and he'll also be responsible for improving the performance of Mesa and their drivers on multi-core processors (read: SMP driver optimizations and Mesa performance improvements in time for Intel's Larrabee discrete GPU).

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjU5NA

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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:48 am Post subject:

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Ah!
Larrabee has DirectX and OpenGL support

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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

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Intel's SoC Update: 1B Transistors Embedded in 5 Years

It’s announcement day! Well, not really. Intel made a few disclosures about its efforts in the embedded space, but nothing tremendous. It all starts with a little chip called Atom.

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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:09 am Post subject:

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New Wolfdale Processor Stepping: Core 2 Duo E8600 Review

In 2-3 weeks Intel will start shipping new dual-core processors with new E0 stepping. There will a new CPU among them: the today’s highest frequency model – Core 2 Duo E8600. Our today’s article will talk about this new processor and the features of all upcoming CPUs with the new processor stepping.

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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

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The Luxury CPU Line . . .

The more I think about Bloomfield, the more it looks like a radical break for Intel, and I'm not talking about performance.

What Intel is doing with Bloomfield is essentially expanding its Extreme processors into an Extreme processor line. Bloomfields will have their own socket, incompatible with any eventual lower-end Nehalem. It will initially need an X58 motherboard, and don't hold your breath expecting more reasonably priced Nehalem chipsets, needing three channels of DDR3 RAM.

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

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Intel's Larrabee Architecture Disclosure: A Calculated First Move

Oooh this is dangerous.
It started with Intel quietly (but not too quietly) informing many in the industry of its plans to enter the graphics market with something called Larrabee.
NVIDIA responded by quietly (but not too quietly) criticizing the nonexistant Larrabee.
What we've seen for the past several months has been little more than jabs thrown back and forth, admittedly with NVIDIA being a little more public with its swings. Today is a big day, without discussing competing architectures, Intel is publicly unveiling, for the first time, the basis of its Larrabee GPU architecture.
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