Soleron said:
It'll be a great technical achievement, but much like the Itanium it'll fail because it won't be quite as good as a specialised GPU or CPU of the time. Also, have you seen the die size and rumoured TDP? It'll be the largest die of any serious tech product ever and consume close to 300W... and still not beat Nvidia or AMD due to the compromises made for it to be x86 compatible. "Mike, you can say what you want, but an in order, RISC CPU is not what Joe Sixpack needs in his PC." Um, we're all running RISC CPUs. x86 is translated to an internal instruction set which is RISC in nature. |
Actually, I totally agree with you. Parallelism this massive will require massive rotooling and rethinking of code to reallize potential. I question the viablilty of Larrabee as a consumer-level CPU for quite some time yet. This post was really meant as another example of how architectures have inherant stregnths and weaknesses, and these headlines serve as nothing more than ways for insecure fanboys to feel good about themselves.
PS3 is my HD platform of choice, but the Cell is just another peice of silicon. When the NES was released, it used a lowly 6502, yet it had great games nonetheless.
