Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips

arcticstoat writes "Intel's Pat Gelsinger recently revealed that Larrabee's 32 IA cores will in fact be based on Intel's ancient P54C architecture, which was last seen in the original Pentium chips, such as the Pentium 75, in the early 1990s. The chip will feature 32 of these cores, which will each feature a 512-bit wide SIMD (single input, multiple data) vector processing unit."

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Re:Pentium 75?

[osu-neko]

Really? I don't think Apple fanbois [sic] would know that much about Pentium math errors, judging from their apparent age levels... On a more serious note, I think it's just CPU geeks who make those jokes, not Mac fans.

Yes, GP was simply using this as an excuse to troll with a bit of name-calling. It's what you do when you have neither facts nor logic on your side. Once the name-calling begins, you know you've already won, and your opponent knows it too, they just won't admit it (possibly not even to themselves -- dismissing others as fanbois, cultists, underage, or geeks in their parents' basement allows them to disregard what others say without even having to think about it, thus preventing them from having to engage in any kind of challenging thinking). Unlike most well-adjusted Windows/Linux/whatever users, this particular person probably secretly thinks Macs are better, thus can't simply say "I prefer Windows/Linux/whatever" but must somehow disparage the Mac users in order to justify their own superiority. Gotta love cognitive dissonance.

It should be noted that there are plenty of Mac users that do the same -- indeed they're somewhat infamous for it. As for Windows users, they really are generally jerks and complete knee-biters. ;)