Announced by Intel in 2008, Larrabee was actually intended to drive a wedge between desktop graphics chips and AMD's FirePro and Nvidia's Tesla/Quadro graphics chips, both enjoying good uptake in the server and workstation markets. Nvidia's Tesla in particular is the go-to solution for businesses, universities and professionals looking for strong computing performance and double-point precision for things like video renders, software development, real-time computing (necessary for robotics) and crunching large datasets into something more useable. Larrabee was shelved on May 2010. On Tuesday it resurfaced as Intel's Knights Corner GPU, a high-performance, multi-purpose heterogenous GPU that will be a part of their new Xeon Phi graphics line.
Larrabee isn't, in fact, dead...
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