Intel Larrabee, which was "cut" more than a decade ago, is only successful in running on Win10.
Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, November 7 (Xinhua)-- Intel tried to launch a unique product, code-named Larrabee, in 2008, but abandoned it in 2010 due to technical problems, and some of the Larrabee prototypes were transferred to computer players.
According to a post on Reddit, someone successfully ran the more than a decade-old graphics card on the Windows 10 operating system.
A member of the LinusTechTips community on Reddit managed to get a prototype Larrabee card from a friend. The BIOS version of the card is 1.0.0.0102, dated February 8, 2010, after Intel sentenced Larrabee to death.
More surprisingly, the post said the Larrabee card was "removed from the image processor connected to the CAT scanner", meaning the card was later used in image processing products.
As you can see from the video, the graphics card does not come with a Windows 10 driver, but it can still be used as a basic graphics adapter. GPU-Z recognized the video card as an Intel GPU and read its device ID (8086 2240-8086 2240), but did not recognize its model number.
CTOnews.com learned that the "Larrabee" display core is another independent display core of Intel after Intel 740. the R & D team and development concept are completely different from Intel's integrated display core. It was originally planned to launch as a consumer GPU product in 2010 at the latest, but due to many "ticket skips", lower-than-expected research and development progress, poor graphics performance, high power consumption and other factors, Intel finally announced in May 2010 that it would cancel the release of the relevant graphics card, and there was no follow-up news on the "Larrabee" research project.
▲ Intel Larrabee core layout Larrabee uses x86 architecture, called "IA" processing core, each "IA" core is based on the old first-generation Pentium P54C core, rather than the latest Nehalem architecture processor core at that time. Intel believes that the Pentium P54C core, which only had five levels of pipelining and could only be executed sequentially, was compared to Nehalem with a complex out-of-order execution structure with 14 levels of pipeline. It has more potential for graphical transformation.
