When Intel announced that the company was working on Larrabee as their next-generation graphics part, mostly everybody thought that Intel would kill ATI/nVidia with ease. After all, the company knocked AMD from its feet with Core architecture, and Intel felt as secure as ever.

Over the course of the last couple of years, I have closely followed Larrabee with on and off-the-record discussions with a significant number of Intel employees. As time progressed, the warning lights stopped being blips in the distance and became big flashing lights right in front of our faces. After discussing what happened at the Intel Developer Forum and the Larrabee demo with Intel's own engineers, industry analysts and the like, there was no point in going back.

This article is a summation of our information on Larrabee, several hundred e-mails, lot of roadmaps and covert discussions. When we asked Intel's PR about Larrabee, his comment was that this story was "invented" and has nothing to do with truth. We were also told that our sources were "CRAP", which was duly forwarded to the sources themselves. We will cherish the comments that ensued afterwards for the remainder of our days, including a meeting that followed a comment "since [Intel] PR claims we don't work on LRB, this board is a cookie". Also, there were some questionable statements about our integrity, but here at Bright Side of News* we are going to continue doing what we did in the past - disclose the information regardless of how good or bad it is. We hope that it is good, but if it's not - don't expect us to stay put.

Unfortunately for the PR, marketing, and sales divisions, it is up to engineers and the fact that they pour their hearts in projects and if wasn't for that - you would not have chips with hundreds, and now billions of transistors in. They don't speak in Ronspeak language, but rather are quite open. This is what we would call, a real inconvenient truth.

For a company of Intel's stature, we did not expect that a project such as Larrabee would develop in the way it has. In fact, according to information gathered over the years - LRB just doesn't look like an Intel project at all [read: sloppy execution, wrong management decisions]. The amounts of leaks we received over the course of the past years simply surprised us; on several occasions, we had the opportunity of seeing internal roadmaps and hearing about frustrations regarding unrealistic expectations from the management.

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