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Tom is conflating two premises - As engineers the team has done some nice work, but as a product Larrabee has failed.

- The perf/watt has not been competitive

- For the most part it has not been loved by its users

- The market share/penetration is small

- There is no evidence sales have been material to Intel; In fact it's not even clear it's been profitable

On the upside, though the product has failed to date, it's not dead. Maybe the 2016 release can turn things around.

Also it's nice that AVX512 came out of Larrabee, but the last line claiming credit to a single person seems dubious.




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