Intel said a few more words about Larrabee's Visual computing Architecture. We guess that we went from VGA (Video Graphic Adaptor) to GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) all the way to VCA or Visual Computing Architecture.

Intel has revealed today that it believes that Larrabee is the best solution for graphics computation and other workloads. This makes Larrabee not only a GPU but also a nice computational platform for some things other than graphics. Nvidia calls this Cuda, while ATI calls this GPGPU, but no matter what you call it, it is the same concept.  

Larrabee is made of many smaller I/A cores, based on the X86 extending instruction set + vector operation, has more cache that is coherent across the Larrabee die. The vector instruction set is powered by vector memory operations, conditionals and integer and floating point arithmetic.

Let’s not forget about the new Vector processing unit and wider SIMD support.

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