Last week, Intel officials announced that New high-performance stand-alone product will be available in 2020 , It is expected to cover enterprise-class data centers, consumer-grade and other fields.
The picture shows the Larrabee prototype
In fact, Intel's history has twice been associated with independence, namely the i740 and Larrabee. The former is equivalent to buying the latter, while the latter is Intel's desire to build x86-based GPUs. Ultimately, although Larrabee did not succeed, it unexpectedly achieved success. Xeon Phi Accelerated Card Project.
just now, Tom Forsyth, the father of Larrabee, announced that he will rejoin Intel , Entered the work of the visual and core computing business (Core and Visual Computing Group) led by Raja Koduri, which is to participate in the creation of Intel's new independence.
However, Tom admits that he is not yet clear about what he really wants to do.
I believe that Tom’s extensive experience in the chip field will help Intel expand the graphics card market. To know that Intel's most important instruction set AVX-512 in these years was completed by Tom Forsyth et al.