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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."
Curses! Beaten to the punch! I was in fact going to point to the same article. I remember my neighbor getting all upset about this in his brand new Pentium base system.
Doh! Intel already beat me to it.
The card would also draw some power from the PCI-E slot.
The PCIe bus itself supplies up to a max of 75W. So, 150 + 75 + 75 = 300.
our precise calculations at Intel suggest that partial core technology has great potential.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?