pauldovi

I know this has already been posted, but this is Anandtech's take on the matter.

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379

This does not surprise me. I remember another Anandtech article starting that Nvidia was more than 60% software engineers. It would take a hardware company like Intel to come up with a (better) hardware based solution.

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Mjolnir

I remember hearing about this and it smacked IMO of vapor(hard)ware, but if it works, I'll happily eat my hat.

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C-bro

I can see Intel backing this big time for Larrabee. Many have already said that Larrabee probably won't be as powerful in a monolithic sense as the gigantic cards from NVIDIA/AMD/ATI, so if they can work out a solution where 8 or 10 of their units can be connected with almost linear scaling, they'll definitely have a desirable platform.

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pauldovi

Except you can do the exact same thing with Lucid + ATI or Lucid + Nvidia.

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C-bro

Very true, but I would imagine using the lower complexity Larrabee processors would have a substantial cost savings as long as the performance scales with the number of units. In other words you could buy 8 Larrabee cards for the price of two classical GPU's and due to the linear scaling, could come out on top. They would still lose on the absolute performance scale 1 unit to 1 unit, but on the relative FLOPs/$, they may have an advantage. Either way, if this product does work as they describe, there should be substantial gains to be had.

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Mjolnir

What kind of mobo is gonna have slots for 8 cards? Or are we talking about multiple GPUs per card?

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Mobsta21

I know lucid wouldnt do this, but if they were to enter the graphics card buisness a third competitor would be flat out amazing. that would drop all the gfx card's prices and would make it alot more competitive. So that would basically mean, Nvidia wouldn't be rereleasing more of the same cough *9800gt* cough

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Except it requires lots of talent, and millions or billions of dollars to enter the processor (GPU or CPU) market.

I don't think they will enter the market, except I could very easily see this being incorperated in place of the Nvidia 200 bridge chip, allowing for much better scaling; not to mention much less heat generated.

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Mjolnir

It looks as though we are looking at products in early 2009. That's a LOT sooner than I thought it would be.

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RayvinAzn

100% scaling? I find it difficult to believe that between ATI and Nvidia neither company has figured out a way to get scaling like this. I'd love it if I were wrong, but it just seems too good to be true.

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