Accelerators: It’s all about the programming

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Joe asks

My question now is, given the intent of Intel in this market, will Larrabee be able to get traction in the graphics world? And therefore, effectively displace nVidia (and to a lesser extent, AMD) as the accelerator king?

IMO, if Intel nails the programmability issue, they can make a huge dent into nVidia’s leadership. It’s all about the programming at this stage

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