Intel's upcoming graphic project codenamed Larrabee is
doomed to end up with a lot of driver issues. The matter is rather simple,
Intel has been in graphic for years but it doesn’t care about the gaming part
of the market as its Intel integrated is well known as the slowest solution
available.
Now all the sudden Intel has to come up with a graphic
driver that will support and perform well under thousands of games available. We
can see loads of problems here as it takes years to make a driver. We heard
that up to 700 engineers are working on a Larrabee which is more than 75
percent more than Nvidia had for G8x generation of engineers but even with this
incredible task force you still need years to debug the drivers.
We can all remember ATI and its previous drivers, some years
ago. It took them a time but it can be done. First rule of semiconductor
business is that you don’t make money on the first chip so don’t expect too
much from Larabee. It will certainly be very good chip for General purpose GPU
processing and science calculation and should fight Radeon's and Tesla's in
this market.
Too good to be true
Published in
Graphics
Latest from Fuad Abazovic