Larrabee will not make 2009 release

This is good. The last thing they need are flakey drivers.
Intel needs to make a good impression with this.
 
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I still need to check out the specs for this Intel GPU. A three way battle sounds good to me tho. More competition = better G-cards for less money.
 
I wasn't expecting it to be released this year anyway. My bets are first samples out by middle to late next year.
 
Do you expect it to be a cheap, low-enjd chip like their GMA range or are you expecting something a little more competitive, like i740 was back in the day?
 
Intel is being fairly tight lipped about this card so it's hard to say what they are aiming for, but I think it will be best positioned at the mid to high end line. They need to compete with the HD4890's and GTX295's if they hope to really etch out a market share in the GPU sector. They also seem to be aiming for Ray Tracing ability which will give them a distinct leg up over ATi and nVidia.
 
I would have though that they would be aiming more at the lower to mid-end, since these are the more affordible cards which presumably sell in greater volume.

What difference is realtime ray-tracing likely to make?
 
Well I'm sure lower end cards will spawn form the high end crop, just like ATi and nVidia do, they first need to prove they can actually make a powerful card. Real time ray-tracing as I understand it would have immense lighting advantages over the current method they use. Things like reflections and refractions look a lot more realistic when ray-traced. Just look at those Pixar style 3d animated movies, they are all ray-traced, albeit not in realtime. It supposedly uses massive calculations to ray-trace even one frame, so whether Intel gets it right is not sure just yet.
 
Agreed, and if Intel are able to sell high-end graphics hardware based on tweaked Pentium chips significantly cheaper than the going rate for Radeon and GeForce chips, well then they have my support.
 
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