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Analysts reckon that Larrabee will not be the graphics hit Intel claim. Intel have claimed that Larrabee will be more powerful than Nvidia who have developed their products for a 10 year span. It takes years of practise to achieve good drivers, inter connects and memory bandwidth.

Intel have made great success in other processor markets, take the x86, server processors, mobile processors such as the Atom and mobile graphics processing. Even though a graphics device is very complicate consisting of billions of transistors and stream processors can they take on the likes of ATI and Nvidia?

Larry Seiler the senior principal engineer says Larrabee the Pentium derived design has five times as many cores, each core has a vector processor and is four times as wide. making the graphics processor 20x as fast as Nvidia’s existing offerings.

I guess its all talk at the moment, are ATI and Nvidia worried about the outcome? I assume so!

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