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uh, no, please read the release and subsequent reviews again.

LRB1 the consumer graphics product was indeed dropped.

LRB1 may see light as a High-Performance Compute product.

LRB1 is...

Crash and Harleyman, thanks for the HNYs, same to you both.

things are ok, digging out from the holidays and evaluating the changes to the LRB program that Intel announced in early Dec. same...

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Full review starts here:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...ormance_review

FSX portion...

http://www.futuregpu.org/2009/01/end-of-era-aces-studio-and-flight-sim.html
http://www.futuregpu.org/2009/01/end-of-era-part-ii-links-and.html...

While I did know there were issues - no, I did not know MGS was going to close Aces as a result.

I left to run into the light that is Larrabee, not to run away from anything.

BTW, every...

you are misreading what I wrote.

not 2 groups on "flying games", 2 groups out of the remains of Aces.

1 group in MSR doing "social networking"

1 group in MGS doing "flying games"

agreed, see http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=10603 and a link to my latest blog post that says something remarkably similar.

here.
http://www.futuregpu.org/2009/02/end-of-era-part-iii-more-updates.html

net-net, go back to flying and wait and see what MGS tells us about the "new flying game" because until then we do...

with a very cleverly worded press release :-)

Is this endorsed by MS in any way, or is this just a standard add-on deal?

I cover some of my thinking around what I know about this decision and what influenced it at a new post at:
http://www.futuregpu.org.

I will post again as I learn more.

no.

Aces was 100-120.

1400 total at MS got RIFed yesterday. Aces was roughly 10% of the total.

until there is more data on the currently unknown but hinted at "future opportunity" within...

see my blog, I talk to the fact some vague future opportunity was mentioned but no details are available at this time.

no, I am quite happy at Intel.

http://www.futuregpu.org/2009/01/end-of-era-aces-studio-and-flight-sim.html

yes, I have contacts.

it's a sad day, that is all I can say at this point.

Lets stop fearmongering about FS11 and back-compat.

The definitive quote is here
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2007/10/02/acceleration-and-sp2.aspx

Which states:
The first is to...