Intel published a video demonstration of its Many Integrated Core Architecture at YouTube, this supercomputing architecture is based on the axed Larrabee GPU.

Be among the first to see Intel’s new Many Integrated Core Architecture in action. This is a short video of the demo that was shown at International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg Germany 2010. This 32 core – 128 thread co-processor is currently still in development. This software development kit is codenamed Knights Ferry and is the first product in a line of Knights family of coprocessors.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Although this is not really a surprise (people have been talking about this for some time) it looks like eVGA could be making a switch from nVidia to Intel.

I am not talking about chipsets either. It seems that Intel might have got eVGA all excited about the Larrabee GPU and they are looking to push them on the public.

As it stands eVGA is one of the last nVidia only AIBs out. They have increased their reputation by standing behind their cards with Life-Time warranties, Upgrade programs, and free overclocking tools and software (might explain why they do not work with AMD/ATi).

If this is the case and eVGA moves to Larrabee it will mean that the first Boards with this new GPU will at least come from a good company.

EXPECTATION DICTATES that Intel’s long-awaited Larrabee offerings will follow the same production model pioneered by rival Nvidia at the start of the decade. But what the Green Goblin might not have counted on is that its most loyal partner would be leading the charge to bring Chipzilla’s products to market.

By all accounts, EVGA is currently Nvidia’s number one partner, having shown 100 per cent loyalty to Jen Hsun Huang and his Green Goblin… until now.

Following a path blazed by Asus, Gigabyte and MSI, EVGA looks set to be the latest to jump the Nvidian ship and seek other product partners.

Bright Side of News reports the Larrabee wafer that Pat Gelsinger showed off at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing last week contains 64 Larrabee dies, each measuring around 600 square millimeters.

Intel’s parallel computing chip is massive and it is guessed at that Larrabee has between 1.65 billion and 1.75 billion transistors, if correct that’s about 300 million more than NVIDIA’s GT200 GPU.

According to some sources, first Larrabee chips will be built using 45nm High-K Hafnium-loving process with a move to 32nm a year after. Now, if Bloomfield die [Core i7] is 263mm2 in size and is consisted out of 731 million transistors, that means that Larrabee’s 600mm2 die would end somewhere in the 1.65-1.75B transistor range.

If you’re not impressed at the specs of this chip, with its 12 P55C-based cores + Vector units, think again. ATI is testing 40nm manufacturing with RV740, a $99 chip featuring 826 million transistors. Intel’s “test” has more than double that. However, the entrance into the world of cGPU or GPGPU won’t be that easy. From the hardware side, ATI is currently shipping 959M parts [4890] and 1.92B with their dual-GPU cards [4850X2/4870X2], nVidia ships 1.4B part for almost a year now [GTX260/275/280/285], or 2.8 billion transistor part if you count their dual-GPU part – GeForce GTX295.

The mud-fight inbetween NVIDIA and Intel repositions today. Nvidia claims that Intel uses Nvidia’s Intellectual Property (IP) in currently shipping Integrated Graphics Processors (IGP) as a part of the cross licensing agreement with Intel.

Nvidia also believes that Intel’s upcoming discrete Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), codenamed Larrabee would not be possible without the use of Nvidia’s IP. If Nvidia terminates its cross-licensing agreement with Intel, it could stop the Larrabee from entering the market. This was pointed out by Nvidia’s Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business in an interview with the website Digitimes.

Digitimes: Nvidia has officially filed a counter suit with the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware against Intel for breach of contract. In the suit, Nvidia accused Intel of making an opportunistic bid to redefine the terms of their 2004 cross-licensing agreement in order to make it impossible for Nvidia to make any kind of chipset covered by the license, while “conveniently” preserving Intel’s access to Nvidia’s IP portfolio.

By publicly announcing that Nvidia is not licensed to sell chipsets for next generation Nehalem CPUs, Intel has caused alarm among Nvidia’s customers, which is having an impact on sales, even for chipsets that are not under dispute, said Nvidia in the suit.

Nvidia’s Drew Henry, general manager of MCP business, described the situation as a headwind that is making it hard to sell its products to motherboard and notebook makers/vendors. While there is doubt over Nvidia’s long-term roadmap, customers may reasonably ask themselves if it is worthwhile continuing to invest in Nvidia chipset-based products.

Henry said that the overall effect of this could be that customers eventually end up switching to entirely Intel-based product lineups, depriving consumers of choice in the market.

Meanwhile, Henry pointed out that Intel continues to benefit from its side of the cross-licensing agreement. Nvidia believes that Intel is using Nvidia IP in currently shipping IGP products and the company also believes that Intel would not be able to develop its Larrabee graphics chips without making use of Nvidia’s IP portfolio, said Henry. Henry went on to say that, Nvidia may ask the courts to terminate Intel’s rights to these IPs in the event that it is found that Intel is in breech of contract.

Henry went on to stress that Nvidia did not want to bring this case to the courts, but was forced to do so after Intel suddenly filed its original suit in February. Both companies have acknowledged that they have been working for over a year to resolve the dispute privately, and later through arbitration. Nvidia has previously stated that it believes the success of its Ion platform (which Henry today interestingly defined as any of Nvidia’s MCP79- and MCP78-based chipsets for Intel CPU-series including Atom, Celeron and Core 2 – Ion originally only referred to chipsets designed for Atom CPUs for nettops and netbooks) was the main cause behind Intel filing the suit.

Finally, when asked what Nvidia’s backup plan is if the courts decide it does not have rights to produce chipsets for Intel CPUs with integrated memory controllers, Henry said Nvidia would figure out ways to bring other products to the market place, such as the already discussed Ion 2 platform for VIA Technologies’ CPUs.