Personally I like to hope that Intel took some lessons-learned to heart over the Merced and i740 situations and if 45nm Larrabee doesn't dominate when time of release comes up then they just skip it altogether and delay Larrabee debut for 32nm shrink, repeat as necessary until they come up with a winning combination of architecture and process technology plus driver maturity to snatch the halo at time-zero.
Really they don't need any negatism to surround the release, and they don't need profits/revenue from the chip in the meantime (should 45nm be skipped) unlike AMD and Nvidia that need to sell everything they've invested the resources into developing.
Its just a hope of mine, not meant to be grounded in reality of business of course. But I'd like to see them X-25M/X-25E the GPU market whenever they do finally release Larrabee if you know what I'm saying.
(or else just not bother because Intel isn't going to be happy fighting NV and AMD for mainstream GPU margins in the 20-30% realm, which is where those GM's are now and will be when a third player is added...Intel needs a path to 50% GM or else they abandon the market segment...ala HDTV and early cellphone efforts that failed circa 2004-2005)
Really they don't need any negatism to surround the release, and they don't need profits/revenue from the chip in the meantime (should 45nm be skipped) unlike AMD and Nvidia that need to sell everything they've invested the resources into developing.
Its just a hope of mine, not meant to be grounded in reality of business of course. But I'd like to see them X-25M/X-25E the GPU market whenever they do finally release Larrabee if you know what I'm saying.
(or else just not bother because Intel isn't going to be happy fighting NV and AMD for mainstream GPU margins in the 20-30% realm, which is where those GM's are now and will be when a third player is added...Intel needs a path to 50% GM or else they abandon the market segment...ala HDTV and early cellphone efforts that failed circa 2004-2005)