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Larrabee seems very Itanium-like to me... And something I'd never really considered, but seems like GPUs actually take a lot from the Itanium camp. Perhaps the
by jwilliams 17y ago
Larrabee seems very Itanium-like to me... And something I'd never really considered, but seems like GPUs actually take a lot from the Itanium camp.
Perhaps they were on the right track, but simply too early (afaik one of the root-cause problems of Itanium was the die size).
- rbanffy 17y agoItanium?! Itanium is not a many-core processor: it is a VLIW processor. If the Larrabee can remind someone of another processor, it's the Niagara family from Sun.
- bvttf 17y agoI read "itanium-like" not in terms of architecture, but in market timing, delivery on performance promises, and scalability for future revisions.
- rbanffy 17y agoI think Larrabee is a lot more promising than Itanium ever was. At the bare minimum, it's a server-like x86 processor. I would prefer something with a more elegant ISA than an x86, but that's what we have in front of us now, thanks to the huge mass of non-portable x86 code that's so critical for success on the desktop...