Intel gave up it’s hopes of breaking into the high end GPU market yesterday, when it announced that it would be halting production on it’s long-delayed consumer GPU, codenamed “Larrabee“. Intel, the worlds biggest chip manufacturer, has been working on the Larrabee platform for a number of years. “Larrabee silicon and software development are behind where we had hoped to be at this point in the project,” said Nick Knuppfler, a spokesman for Intel in Santa Clara, Calif. “Larrabee will not be a consumer product.”
Although they have pulled the plug on the consumer version of Larrabee, Knuppfler said that Intel will continue to work on graphics chip designs. He says that Intel will release more information on this in 2010.
Intel drew much praise and interest at the game developer conference last year when it released more info on the platforms architecture and performance. The platform was touted as having dozens of processors on a single graphics card.
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