Intel Knights Ferry performance is "quite impressive"

I decided to take a gander at AMDZone to see how those folks were reacting to Sandy Bridge, considering the heaps of praise lavished by Real World Technologies and Ars.

A post by Smartidiot89 dated October 2, 2010 reads, "I happen to know someone who has "Knights Ferry" in possession, while he won't tell me me much due to NDA the performance is quite impressive but it requires alot of work to actually... work on any x86 software so it doesn't simply work as most people believe."

It reminds me of a post by Charlie Demerjian where he notes, "the strengths of the chip are in the 'other' category" and a recent one where he says,

"From what I understand, the consoles were decided as Sony = Intel Larrabee, MS = ? + ATI, and Nintendo = ? + ATI. Then the economic sh*tstorm hit, and people pulled back, and the consoles slipped from 2012 -> 2014.

Sony and MS have started over, Sony because of Intel's screwup, and MS because they could. Both are still taking bids right now.

Nintendo is the only one with a console being actively worked on, and that will be out LONG before the others. It will likely be the same team that did the N64, GC and Wii again, because they did a great job."

I was looking forward to ray tracing and such, but at least Larrabee/Knights is good at something (presumably HPC, since the crew is supposedly being repurposed that way). We'll be curing Malaria in no time.