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Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the making-old-new-again dept.

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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  1. Pentium 75? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah the dreams of the past, a beowulf cluster of old computers come to life :)

    1. Re:Pentium 75? by Divebus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Making math errors at blazing speeds...

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    2. Re:Pentium 75? by BUL2294 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, don't worry about that. Games will just be more interesting. For example, that 3D monster you're trying to hack to death with a chainsaw will now suddenly shift to a different part of the screen... Or maybe you'll get a cool color-cycling effect from some incorrectly calculated values...

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    3. Re:Pentium 75? by Lemmeoutada+Collecti · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean my FPS will behave like World of Warcraft now? Wonderful!

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    4. Re:Pentium 75? by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh it performed them reliably.. just reliably wrong.

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    5. Re:Pentium 75? by halivar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, the grandparent is a total asshole!

      Oh, wait...

      Hey, Nimey, I'm sorry I called you an asshole... and for thinking you were a totally worthless dickweed. That was wrong of me, and I apologize. I also apologize for the "worthless potato-sack of crap" comment I was going to make before I remembered my manners.

      *phew*... thanks, AC. It feels great to be nice to people for a change.

  2. Pentiums? by h4rm0ny · · Score: 3, Funny


    This is just unbelievably good news. After all this time, I get to start telling Pentium jokes again! I never thought I would!

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    1. Re:Pentiums? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Intel... where quality is job 0.9995675!

  3. I'm no expert but by Gat0r30y · · Score: 4, Funny

    The card features one 150W power connector, as well as a 75W connector. Heise deduces that this results in a total power consumption of 300W,

    Um, that just doesn't seem to quite add up to me.

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    1. Re:I'm no expert but by h4rm0ny · · Score: 4, Funny

      Um, that just doesn't seem to quite add up to me.

      It does if you work it out on a Pentium I :D

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    2. Re:I'm no expert but by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or from the loss of mental acuity due to serious RF interference melting your brain.

      "Look at da pretty colors..."

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  4. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? by KlomDark · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's one of the larger cities in Wyoming. Get with it. ;)

  5. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's one of the larger cities in Wyoming. Get with it. ;)

    Only if you have a head cold.

  6. Marko DeBeeste by Marko+DeBeeste · · Score: 3, Funny

    Larrabee is the Chief's cousin

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  7. Re:Sounds good! by h4rm0ny · · Score: 3, Funny


    Hey, only Intel provide you with a floating point that really floats - why you never know where it's going to end up! Now that's floating!:D

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  8. Bill Waterson process by DragonHawk · · Score: 4, Funny

    One does not "shrink" a chip by taking photomasks and shrinkenating.

    'course not. You use a transmogrifier. In the industry, it is known as the "Bill Watterson" process.

    It can also be used to turn photomasks into elephants, which, while less profitable, is immensely entertaining if the operator didn't see you change the setting.

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  9. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? by Dun+Malg · · Score: 4, Funny

    The three largest "Cities" are: Cheyenne -- 56k,

    That's insane. I could get 56K people to yell at me to Turn That Shit Down by simply turning up my stereo and opening a window at 3am...

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  10. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? by Joe+Snipe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I#m very sceptic about Intes

    Cool, proof of Dvorak keyboard use in the wild

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  11. You forgot one... by hyperz69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet Duke Nukem Forever is gonna look SWEET on one of these!

  12. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? by Joe+Snipe · · Score: 4, Funny

    :(

    The hunt continues...

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