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Larrabee comes in 2H 2009 |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Friday, 07 November 2008 09:55 |
Workstation
The first Larrabee will come as a workstation product, positioned in the high-end market and we heard that this should happen in the second half of 2009. Intel wants to attack the most profitable market, which is obviously Nvidia's cash cow. Today Nvidia holds around 85 per cent of this market and both ATI and Intel want a piece of this action in 2009.
Workstation drivers are a complex thing, but based on OpenGL (as this is what most of the workstation applications use) you still need to optimize this driver to perfection to get the desired results from it and to hope to gain performance leadership in this market.
Workstation market is very attractive, as the margins on these products are as high as sixty percent, while when you sell a high-end graphics card you can only hope to get a fifteen percent margin. This gives you a clear idea why companies want to be the part of this lucrative market.
The desktop, gaming Larrabee comes later, in 2010.
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