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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. Maybe they decided to "Get Smart"? by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart

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