Intel Corp., the world’s largest manufacturer of microprocessors, has confirmed that it will present a paper at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, in which it will detail features and capabilities connected to the blueprint of its first-ever “many core” graphics architecture “Larrabee”.
Intel to unveil its Larrabee graphics architecture at SIGGRAPH 2008. Image: SIGGRAPH.
According to Intel, its SIGGRAPH 2008 paper will delve into the chipmaker’s new approach to the software rendering 3D pipeline and will also place specific emphasis on the Larrabee technology, which is expected to target the personal computer graphics marketplace in 2009 or 2010 -- and could well ruffle the feathers of industry mainstays NVIDIA and ATI.
Set to arrive as Intel’s first many-core x86 architecture, meaning it will be based on an array of many processors, Larrabee’s individual processors are described as being similar to those Intel chips that already power the Internet, as well as the laptops, PC systems and servers that connect to it.
Furthermore, Intel also expects Larrabee to serve as the technological catalyst responsible for kick-starting “an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers.”
In terms of its potential impact on the graphics industry, Larrabee is being touted as bringing about significant innovation that will allow computer games designers to continue the evolution of graphical realism while shrugging off the otherwise “rigid and limited framework” that comes with it.
“Working directly with some of the world’s top 3D graphics experts, Larrabee will give developers of games and APIs (Application Programming Interface) a blank canvas onto which they can innovate like never before,” enthused Intel in an official release.
The Santa Clara-based chipmaker has also said that initial product implementations of the Larrabee architecture will target discrete graphics applications, support DirectX and OpenGL and also run existing computer games software and programs.
The 2008 SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques) Conference will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California between August 11 and August 15.
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