Has the Cell peaked? If no, would it work for next gen? - More questions inside

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zarx said:

Squilliam said:

Actually it still lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC

They just rebranded it because the past failure left a bad taste in their mouth.

It has a lot of the specialist components like the texture units stripped out tho. And the point of Larrabee was to get into the dedicated GPU market which they have abandoned completely. They have decided to compete with Nvidia from the bottom instead lol.

Speaking of Larrabee, here's what came out of that idea at the end - Intel Xeon Phi:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-phi-larrabee-stampede-hpc,3342.html

Not bad when compared to new offerings from nVidia and AMD:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Xeon-Phi-Hardware-256199/News/Intel-Larrabee-Xeon-Phi-5110P-Xeon-Phi-3100-Serie-1035298/&usg=ALkJrhj2GcbFRuYHUEI-bNMqSkB_7rSxsw