Intel Preparing Graphics Invasion With Larrabee Architecture

Intel has revealed more details about its next generation graphics chip codenamed Larrabee, which is set to be its first hybrid CPU/GPU silicon, at the opening of the Visual Computing Institute in Saarland University. Larrabee will be Intel's answer to the growing threat posed by ATI/AMD and Nvidia, both of which have already unveiled plans to bring the battle of Graphics Processing Units to the microprocessor grounds. Journalists present at the event were able to get...