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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."
That's impossible! Everyone knows that no one lives in Wyoming. The population is bovine, all the way down.
I seriously don't care about Larrabee or what the hell kind of architecture it has. It is going to be a pile of EPIC FAIL just like any of their other GPUs.
Ironically, the people who made these lame jokes the most (Apple fanbois) now advocate Intel chips as being the best. Yet another example of do as I do, not as I say from the Apple camp.
Then this is a fucking bad design.
If you wanted massively parallel specialized architecture, you should have used a specialized chip. If you wanted something more generic, you should have used ARM (600MHz XScale peaks at 0.5W of power! And performs multiple insns per clock due to the efficient pipelining inherent in the ARM ILA...).
32 x 600MHz@0.5W == 19.2GHz@16W, woo!
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