Larrabee heading For Soc

[tangey]

"The bigger market, however, will be beyond the PC, when Larrabee technology is incorporated in system-on-a-chip products for handheld devices, Maloney said"

Which would imply that not only does Intel think that Larrabee will scale down well, they think it will scale down at a good power/performance ratio.

Where does this leave IMG in Intel's plans ?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100672

 

[Mike11]

"The bigger market, however, will be beyond the PC, when Larrabee technology is incorporated in system-on-a-chip products for handheld devices, Maloney said"

Which would imply that not only does Intel think that Larrabee will scale down well, they think it will scale down at a good power/performance ratio.

Where does this leave IMG in Intel's plans ?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/processors/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220100672

That would be news to me. Anandtech thinks that Larrabee will be integrated into Haswell (technically a SoC), the 22nm architecture scheduled for 2012 (Nehalem --> Westmere (32nm) --> Sandy Bridge --> Ivy Bridge (22nm) --> Haswell).

The core for handhelds in that time frame should be the 22nm successor of Saltwell (afaik doesn't have a name yet).

The demo was nothing more than proof of functionality, but Sean Maloney did officially confirm that Larrabee's architecture would eventually be integrated into a desktop CPU at some point in the future.
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The CPU is called Haswell and will be built using 22nm transistors. It's about 3 years away.
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Nehalem was architected to be very modular, Jasper Forest is just another example of that. Long term you can expect Nehalem cores (or a similar derivative) to work alongside Larrabee cores, which is what many believe Haswell will end up looking like.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3644