Larrabee's success will depend on... (Score 1)

Larrabee's support for Direct3D and OpenGL will determine its course of life. The reason is twofold. First, whether Larrabee-only games and applications (those that brig out the full functionality of Larrabee) get written will depend on its popularity. Second, for Larrabee to be adopted, it needs to support existing libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL. 1) The first part should be fairly obvious - it takes time to make a game or an application, so developers need to be invested to make one for Larrabee, which will not come to them until Larrabee has some share of the graphics-hardware market. 2) The second part is true because Larrabee-only games and applications do not exist yet. Consumers will not spend 200-300 dollars on a piece of hardware only because of its specifications. They will need to see its applications to buy it. And since no application with Larrabee in mind has been written yet, it will need to support existing applications, and they all use existing libraries such as Direct3D and OpenGL. Thus, Larrabee's success depends on its support for Direct3D and OpenGL, and Intel developers developing drivers for Larrabee will be responsible for it.