This contains nothing but content hijacked from the original piece (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1314227). It's surprising that people can get away with this. I thought tomshardware was a credible site.
His is spot on though, but we need to get the vector unit as standard on the MB, not some add-on card. Larabee talks good graphics talk but the real gift should just be the vector FPU made available to the OS.
SSEx processes 128bits in one operation which can represent 2 x 64bit doubles or 4 x 32bit floats or 8 x dwords or 16 bytes, which I thought was me reading it wrong, they call it SIMD and let you have 2 64bit data points which I suppose is technically true :) I was expecting something spectacular like 128.
