According to the hardware designer, if Larrabee had emerged on time, it would have change the whole industry. Larrabee was supposed to render graphics, feature extremely flexible programmability and retain compatibility with x86 instruction set so to allow developers to easily use many-core Larrabee for multi-threaded non-graphics applications. Nvidia Corp.’s upcoming Fermi family of GPUs also promise to be much more programmable than today’s graphics chips, but it is not x86-compatible.

Intel’s Larrabee set to “Come Back with a Vengeance”