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Intel Larrabee story revealed

This came via Miguel de Icaza on Twitter.  Very interesting read about what’s been happening behind the scenes at Intel with Larrabee.  I’ve been very interested in Larrabee, since it represents the continuation of moving more and more onto the general purpose CPUs instead of having specialized chips for things like 3D graphics.  The idea of being able to have a very large multicore (64 at the very least) CPU that can run software to be the GPU is a very cool idea.  It seems more logical to me that this is the way things are going rather than projects like OpenCL, where CPU load is offloaded onto the GPU.  But after reading this article, it is very clear that we are a long way from that goal.