Intel Larrabee: Potential Disruptive Technology

One of the major announcements at last week's SIGGRAPH conference was the Intel paper presenting their new graphics architecture.  I say graphics, however it doesn't take much imagination to realize that a powerful many-core architecture like Larrabee has general-purpose and special-purpose computational potential beyond graphics specifically.

I am not a graphics processing expert, I will be the first to assert.  For a technical write-up on what Larrabee is and is not, I would refer you to the excellent Ars Technica article on the subject.  What I do know is how to spot disruptors when they surface, and this announcement has the potential to become very disruptive.