14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's upcoming Larrabee chip is getting closer by the day, at least from what the few details available at this time are pointing out. This is probably the reason why in the upcoming months you will be able to read a number of articles based on various rumors and speculations regarding Intel's first graphics processing unit, which is expected to compete with similar products from the two leading graphics card makers, namely NVIDIA and ATI. On that note, a recent article on “The Inquirer” is the reason behind a real buzz on the Internet, as it claims Intel's upcoming GPU will be featured in Sony's next-generation PlayStation 4 gaming console.
Charlie Demerjian for The Inquirer wrote: “FOR THE NEXT next generation of consoles, PS4, XBox3 and Wii2, it looks like Intel is in, Nvidia is out.” The article continues by claiming that Intel will be producing the GPU responsible for the graphics in the upcoming PlayStation 4 gaming console, a product that is yet to become official. At first, this sounds impressive, as such news will likely place Intel on the sweet spot of the gaming market. However, after reading the entire article, the claims of Intel's Larrabee becoming the GPU for Sony's PlayStation 4 seem somewhat far-fetched.
Fortunately, the guys over at Tech Radar have approached the rumor a bit more professionally, speaking with a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe rep on the matter. Apparently, the story of Intel's Larrabee landing in Sony's PS4 “it's nonsense, and is quite possibly the best work of fiction I've read, since the Lord of the Rings.” That should be enough to convince most of those who have read the aforementioned article in The Inquirer, regarding the future of Intel's Larrabee GPU.
However, there's another side to the story. Sure, we don't have any official confirmation that Intel's Larrabee will be powering the graphics behind Sony's upcoming PS4, but that doesn't mean that Intel isn't looking to put its Larrabee in one of the upcoming gaming consoles. After all, what better way to promote a graphics chip, if not inside a high-performance gaming console?