The Official Nintendo Zii Thread

[Darksol]

I'm no resource when it comes to talking tech, but my understanding is that Larrabee is a hybrid of both CPU and GPU, designed to cover both tasks at low cost and with minimal power consumption. It's also being considered for a future generation of netbooks.

If that's the case, it would be in line with Nintendo's minimalist tendencies with regards to cost and form-factor. Whichever route they take, my guess is that while they will certainly support HDTV's, they likely will trade power for efficiency once again and leave the arms race to Sony and Microsoft.

More the issue is that Larabee is not a proven solution that is as good as or better than today's solutions at least proof wise. It does look good on paper since the GPU would be on the CPU die. I think an AMD solution would be better here.

[Darksol]

Rumor: Sony considered Larrabee for PS4, will reconsider for PS5, PS6

Looks like Intel tried to ensnare MSFT and Sony as well. No takers. Funny at the end of the article they joke about the '10' year lifecycle. I still think AMD has a better shot at a solution like Larabee than Intel has currently.