Whenever i re-read Tom Forsyth's (who worked on it) article about Larrabee [1], i facepalm hard at Intel's decision to drop it. It is one of the few cases where i really wanted to put my hands on that sort of hardware. An essentially standalone manycore CPU on a PCI express form that is running FreeBSD or Linux, with a bit of graphics specific functionality that doubles as a video card and you can fully program like a PC?

I have "I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!" signs blinking in my head as i type this :-P.

(facepalm mainly because i wanted it, i do not know the economical details)

Funny enough, the Forsyth's (and another one from another team member i do not remember now) article sold me more on Larrabee than any PR speak Intel made.

[1] http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...