Larrabee
Pat Gelsinger, senior VP and GM of the Digital Enterprise Group, also had a keynote and, while he bigged up the recent launch of the Xeon 5500 server CPU family, he also touched upon Intel's long anticipated discrete graphics project, codenamed Larrabee.
It's now being described as "Intel's first many-core architecture designed for high throughput applications and features a programmable graphics pipeline that enables developer freedom." Apparently a C++ Larrabee prototype library is now available and the first Larrabee discrete graphics products are due in the late 2009 or early 2010.
In the opening keynote, Intel chairman Craig Barrett alluded to the philanthropic benefits of technology and urged developers to create products that improve things like education and healthcare. "Public-private collaboration is fundamental in driving solutions that confront global challenges," he said.
