Intel (NSDQ:INTC) wants to get back into the discrete graphics game and on Monday revealed some details about how it plans to get there within the next couple of years with a family of products and development tools codenamed Larrabee.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant will officially present a paper on "a many-core visual computing architecture" at the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 but has already placed the paper online.
Intel on Monday said the first Larrabee-based product will be released "in 2009 or 2010." That unspecified device "will target the personal computer graphics market" but Intel promised applications for Larrabee that go beyond traditional graphics processing and pledged to build the infrastructure and ecosystem necessary for an ambitious plan to blend linear and parallel computing on entirely x86-based hardware platforms.
"It's shaping up to be an interesting product. We won't know where it scales in terms of performance until we have hardware in hand, but they've taken a number of steps to make it fit into the market," said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research
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