Larrabee (or something similar) could have been an amazing real-time operating system target. Each little (Pentium!) core having truly its own local memory, no

Larrabee (or something similar) could have been an amazing real-time operating system target. Each little (Pentium!) core having truly its own local memory, no contention. But it was pitched as a GPU and the raw performance was not there. Intel sucks at software and should have leaned in to their strengths - documenting the hell out of the low level workings of Larrabee. Workloads tuned to it would have been a great moat.