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Originally Posted by LifeOnMars
What about larabees place in the mobile market? That could be very beneficial IMO.
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I expect is the Sandy Bridge processors to have a Larabee-derived chip integrated into the CPU die. That way there is only one hot device to cool, it is much cheaper to produce, and they care share system memory without any extra links. I think until 2011, Larabee is likely to be stuck on a PCI Express card.
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Originally Posted by TheMailMan78
Sounds a lot like the "Cell" CPU in the PS3.
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Kind of. Cell has a PPE with multiple SPEs under it. The only thing resembling a PPE in Larabee would be the CPU; however, the individual cores of a Larabee chip are far more capable than the SPEs in a Cell processor. Not to mention, Larabee will use QPI in the middle instead of something down the lines of a backside bus.