Intel’s “Larrabee” is a mutant CPU/GPU hybrid of doom

Larrabee details

Even though it was Intel’s 6-core monster that got all the attention, one little gem that missed out on the publicity a bit was Larrabee, Intel’s CPU-GPU hybrid or essentially a graphic card processor, or a processor graphic card, or something along those lines.

To find out more about this demonic hybrid, hit the jump!

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Facebook Chat

Ladies and gentlemen, here we go the official death of AIM is here. For years millions have used AIM to chat with buddies, but now Facebook is entering the instant messaging market. TechCrunch did a screencast of the new web based service. We can only begin to imagine the possibilities that this new field will provide Facebook users. Facebook Chat will be made public within the next few weeks.

Who woulda thunk it – gecko in the news!

Living in a tropical area, gecko’s are a very common sght.

 a gecko

My maid must spend more time cleaning gecko “kaka” from my walls than she does cleaning my laundry (only becasue I run around in the same pair of shorts for a week).

But now, the lonely gecko has made news TWICE in the span of that many days.

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Intel’s 6-Core processors coming this very year

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In what comes as a slap to the face of anyone who spent their year’s-worth of savings on a quad-core, Intel has announced that it’s devilish 6-Core processors will go into production as soon as this very summer, making a 2008 release very likely.

The first generation 45 nm processor, a “six-core Dunnington server CPU platform using Penryn architecture” will feature 16 Mb of L3 cache – pioneering Intel’s goals of phasing out its Core architecture and the Front Side Bus itself! Also, Intel unveils its mysterious “Simultaneous Multithreading” spell!

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