Shacknews reports: "A new chip unveiled by hardware maker Intel will reintegrate graphics processing into the CPU with DirectX and OpenGL support, according to TechReport. Dubbed "Larrabee", the chip was unveiled at this year's Siggraph conference and sports a variety of new technical features. The CPU is said to offer better scaling of its cores, with a quad-core chip four times faster than its single-core counterpart.
Should the CPU-based graphical rendering capabilities prove viable to developers, Larrabee could serve as a cost-efficient alternative to expensive PC video cards, such as those produced by AMD and Nvidia. Intel expects engineering samples of the chip by the end of the year, followed by a general market release in late 2009 to early 2010.:
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I still feel shivers from last intel accelerated graphics chipset..
Larrabee isn't new, information has been circulating for sometime now. While it >may< provide a cost effective way for people to get into PC gaming it will not replace high end GPU's.
Maybe in years from now similar tech will come to fruition, but not anytime soon.
The Larabee architecture shares a very big feature from Cell Architecture, which is the high-bandwidth ring bus for inter-core communication. Very smart move that will encourage data streaming, similar to what we see in game consoles.
It's not a replacement for dedicated GPU cards, but it is a step in the right direction.
I read the extensive write-up on Larrabee on AnandTech. Larrabee seems really interesting, but Intel is going to have a lot of competition. If they don't get Larrabee to work well in existing D3D/OGL games, then it'll be a failure.
HA! Pull the other one!