Intel Kills Consumer Larrabee Plans 166
An anonymous reader tips news that Intel has canceled plans for a consumer version of their long-awaited and oft-delayed Larrabee chip, opting instead to use it as a development platform product. From VentureBeat:
"'Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we had hoped to be at this point in the project,' said Nick Knuppfler, a spokesman for Intel in Santa Clara, Calif. 'Larrabee will not be a consumer product.' In other words, it’s not entirely dead. It’s mostly dead. Instead of launching the chip in the consumer market, it will make it available as a software development platform for both internal and external developers. Those developers can use it to develop software that can run in high-performance computers. But Knuppfler said that Intel will continue to work on stand-alone graphics chip designs. He said the company would have more to say about that in 2010."
Lol at the idiots (Score:2, Funny)
So they intend to take a product, who's chief advantage was that it could run old x86 code, and only sell it people who are designing new software? Am I the only one that sees a problem with this?
Great, just in time for Duke Nukem Forever! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great, just in time for Duke Nukem Forever! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of old memes. Oh wait, I don't have to, it's Slashdot.
Re:In other words... (Score:2, Funny)
Wow... shock horror (Score:5, Funny)