mike, 11 months ago

Admittedly it's not the most practical device anymore, except for those times you want to put a PC in your PC so you can compute while you compute.

Yo dawg meme

mike, 11 months ago

lol, I just stumbled across @TomF's blog post on #Larrabee, Intel's GPU project prior to #ARC.

It's widely parroted that #Intel #Phi is Larrabee without the texture units, but more accurately the Phi chip still has them, they're just unused (there's even DVI pins).

It makes me wonder to what degree they're disabled? Could a low level driver access them, or a modified firmware? 🤔

https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html

TomF, 11 months ago

@mike Maybe, but I have been asked this frequently and the answer is that the firmware/driver/OS upload is well-encrypted, and I don't know anyone with the keys.

mike, 11 months ago

@TomF Makes sense. No doubt someone would have dabbled and shared by now if it wasn't.