Project Status
On December 4, 2009, Intel officially announced that the first-generation Larrabee will not be released as a consumer GPU product. Instead, it will be released as a development platform for graphics and high-performance computing. The official reason for the strategic reset was attributed to delays in hardware and software development. Intel stated that it will announce further updates to the Larrabee project in 2010. On May 25, 2010, the Technology@Intel blog announced that Larrabee would not be released as a GPU, but instead would be released as a product for High Performance Computing competing with the Nvidia Tesla.
The project to produce a GPU retail product directly from the Larrabee research project was terminated in May 2010. The Intel MIC multiprocessor architecture announced in 2010 inherited many design elements from the Larrabee project, but does not function as a graphics processing unit; the product is intended as a co-processor for high performance computing. The prototype card is named Knights Ferry, a production card built at a 22 nm process named Knights Corner is planned for production in 2012 or later.
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