Larrabee wird im August vorgestellt

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PAT GELSINGER fleshed out more details of Intel's plans for Larrabee, which he confirmed will include platforms that will directly compete with ATI and Nvidia.

But it will be through a well eastablished distie/add on board channel.

Stephen Smith, a senior VP at Intel, said that two weeks ago.

He said that Intel has not announced any plans to recruit add in board partners, but when the discrete graphics cards arrive, the firm won't brand products as Intel and will take a channel strategy.

He said: "The first versions of Larrabee will be aimed at discrete graphics and we'll have a rich set of software tools for that architecture." That will include compilers supporting OpenGL and Intel will have workstation versions of designs. He said: "We've not announced any specifications," but Intel will have multiple partners to bring discrete graphics offerings to the market, he said.

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This is where Larrabee comes in. Gelsinger said that Larrabee--a "many core" chip--will target Nvidia and AMD/ATI's discrete graphics. "Obviously, if we're going to be competing in the discrete graphics marketplace, we think we're going to have to compete well...in terms of traditional benchmarks like 3D Mark," he said, adding that Intel will support traditional graphics interfaces such as DirectX and OpenGL. A big potential plus: since Larrabee cores will be based on the Intel Architecture, developers who already write code for standard Intel microprocessors can develop for Larrabee without learning a completely new architecture.