From what I've read Larrabee won't really compete with Nvidia & AMD/ATI by the time its released. Its only slightly better than thier current generation of tech and its a good year away yet.
Ps. Core i7 is looking like its not going to be a huge step up for gamers or home users. Its main focus seems to be killing off the last of AMD's strongholds i.e. the server market.
It will be better than the current Core based chips but not like the change from P4 to Core2.
Yeah I kinda know that but Im looking further down the track after that tech is tried out in the PC arena first then we'll start seeing 2nd, 3rd gen larrabee's which might give nvidia's and ati's midrange offers a good run for their moneys worth. In the lowrange Intel could fight em both off, I mean they both do good at providing cheap alternatives but from what Intel and Core showed me is that they can do it better, cheaper and at a better price.
Which is more what the console market is about, none of the current ones have the highest end (at the time) graphics hardware. They arnt shabby by any means though but the software is made with those specifications in mind.
Anyways onto my point, is what happens you you get a 3rd gen (we'll say just for now) larrabee with a i7core right...
And make it a bluechip intel only box? I think the performance you would see would be impressive to say the least and the cost would be decent by the time the next set of consoles are starting to come together.
I think Intel could get a very complex console architecture going with the load balancing and scalability of their chips I just see a future in that
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