Intel apparently cancels its most intriguing CPU hybrid yet

An Intel project around two years in the making (and likely several more years of research) has been canceled, meaning the company will no longer be channeling efforts into creating a CPU-VPU hybrid, at least for now.Codenamed Thunder Bay, Intel had been working on a system-on-chip (SoC) combining CPU cores from its Xeon processor with VPU cores from Movidius, after acquiring the company in 2016 for its computer vision processor designs.However, a Linux patch discovered by Phoronix (opens in

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