Intel working on High-End GPU? Project Larrabee.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2968&p=3

"“[the Larrabee architecture] will include enhancements to accelerate applications such as scientific computing, recognition, mining, synthesis, visualization, financial analytics and health applications.”

"Let’s get this straight: Larrabee is a super wide, FP powerhouse architecture that can do a better job at accelerating scientific computing applications than current Intel CPUs? Larrabee sure does sound a lot like a high end GPU."

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There's only a little bit in this article, which is mostly about Penryn, but i'd not seen it mentioned before.

Rich.