Intel courting Microsoft/Sony for Larrabe (GPU) deal.

[Squilliam]

alephnull said:

Squilliam said:

alephnull said:

This all assumes intel can even make a decent compiler for it. Remember the Itanic?

 

They are basing it off the x86 P1 processor. Since its got an X86 lineage I doubt they will be hurting for a compiler.

The Itanic was a completely new architecture, this is x86 based.

 

 

I think you may be confusing the microarchitecture and the ISA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set. The cell uses the POWER ISA, does that mean it can use the same compiler as the xenon which also uses the POWER ISA?

They most likely based their first compiler on the POWER ISA. They use a combination of old and new elements, and the new elements make up a larger proportion of the whole than Larrabee.