Intel's next GPU to be Pentium MMX-based?

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*Source: Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...x-based.html)*
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Last night, I was sitting around thinking about Intel's forthcoming discrete GPU, codenamed "Larrabee." Specifically, I was thinking about how Larrabee will have lots of simple, in-order cores with a short pipeline, and it occurred to me that they might look something like Pentium cores. And lo and behold, I awakened this morning to a rumor (http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/upgr...leid=126801842) that Intel is reviving the Pentium MMX microarchitecture for Larrabee.

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