Intel Kills Consumer Larrabee Plans

An anonymous reader tips news that Intel has canceled plans for a consumer version of their long-awaited and oft-delayed Larrabee chip, opting instead to use it as a development platform product. From VentureBeat: "'Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we had hoped to be at this point in the project,' said Nick Knuppfler, a spokesman for Intel in Santa Clara, Calif. 'Larrabee will not be a consumer product.' In other words, it’s not entirely dead. It’s mostly dead. Instead of launching the chip in the consumer market, it will make it available as a software development platform for both internal and external developers. Those developers can use it to develop software that can run in high-performance computers. But Knuppfler said that Intel will continue to work on stand-alone graphics chip designs. He said the company would have more to say about that in 2010."

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Re:Oh rats

[KillShill]

Barely.

ATi is only as viable as the monopolist Nvidia will let them be.

ATi has been very fortunate so far but they've just squeaked by in some years.

The problem is an uneducated populace... they keep rewarding anti-competitive and unethical behavior by continuing to purchase products from the monopolist.

Hopefully the thrice-convicted monopolist (intel) will beat the snot out of nvidia (recent lawsuit) and thereby reducing their effectiveness as a bully in the video card market.

Fighting fire with fire sometimes is the only way when no other solution is provided.