Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops

New submitter asliarun writes "David Kanter of Realworldtech recently posted his take on Intel's upcoming Knights Landing chip. The technical specs are massive, showing Intel's new-found focus on throughput processing (and possibly graphics). 72 Silvermont cores with beefy FP and vector units, mesh fabric with tile based architecture, DDR4 support with a 384-bit memory controller, QPI connectivity instead of PCIe, and 16GB on-package eDRAM (yes, 16GB). All this should ensure throughput of 3 teraflop/s double precision. Many of the architectural elements would also be the same as Intel's future CPU chips — so this is also a peek into Intel's vision of the future. Will Intel use this as a platform to compete with nVidia and AMD/ATI on graphics? Or will this be another Larrabee? Or just an exotic HPC product like Knights Corner?"

Comments

Imagine

[Konster]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

Re:Imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget about Linux! With this baby, I can finally run Crysis.

Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of!

[morcego]

Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.

Install McAfee Antivírus, and problem solved: no more unused cores.

Re:I fail to see parallelism in CSS flow

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you in Colorado?

Imagine, 2

[Futurepower(R)]

Imagine having one of those in your smartphone. You could answer text messages 1 microsecond faster. The battery life wouldn't be good.

ipad

[goombah99]

They tested this for the next ipad. While apple felt the 5 second battery life was too short to be practical, the beta testers were more concerned about the apple shaped 3rd degree burns imprinted on their thighs and palms

Re: ipad

[Macthorpe]

To be fair, Apple are very committed to branding.