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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 Lemmeoutada+Collecti · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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

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

    Intel... where quality is job 0.9995675!

  4. 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.

  5. 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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