Larrabee -- was ipso facto half not bee
Hardware collector YJFY via Tom's Hardware has posted images of what it claims is Intel's 2nd Generation Larrabee graphics card which never appeared in the shops and we officially declared "half not bee" in honour of the Monty Python song Cyril "the half a bee."
Intel's Larrabee 2 graphics board was meant to be based on the chip eventually known as the Knights Corner and generated a certain buzz when it was demonstrated SC11 conference in November 2011.*It was meant to be a client PC-oriented graphics processor and a high-performance computing co-processor based on 4-way Hyper-Threaded Atom-like x86 cores with AVX-512 extensions that were meant to deliver flexible programmability and competitive performance.
The processor shown is an engineering sample produced in late 2011 featuring the QBAY stepping. It allegedly features 60 cores and operates at 1.00 GHz, which corresponds to specifications of Intel's KNC. Unlike production Xeon Phi 'Knights Corner' products, the processor has 4GB of GDDR5 memory.
The board is an evaluation sample, with diagnostic LEDs, multiple connectors for probes, and jumpers. There is also a DVI connector that is typically used for video output. This all fits with what was told to the
https://fudzilla.com/news/56036-one-...d-gen-larrabee
One, two, three, its Intel's second gen Larrabee
23rd December 2022, 06:27
One, two, three, its Intel's second gen Larrabee 
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