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Intel Launches 72-Core Knight's Landing Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Intel announced a new version of their Xeon Phi line-up today, otherwise known as Knight's Landing. Whatever you want to call it, the pre-production chip is a 72-core coprocessor solution manufactured on a 14nm process with 3D Tri-Gate transistors. The family of coprocessors is built around Intel's MIC (Many Integrated Core) architecture which itself is part of a larger PCI-E add-in card solution for supercomputing applications. Knight's Landing succeeds the current version of Xeon Phi, codenamed Knight's Corner, which has up to 61 cores. The new Knight's Landing chip ups the ante with double-precision performance exceeding 3 teraflops and over 8 teraflops of single-precision performance. It also has 16GB of on-package MCDRAM memory, which Intel says is five times more power efficient as GDDR5 and three times as dense.
So, somewhere someone at AMD is going "fuck it, we're going to 128 cores".
Damn ... that's a crap pile of cores ... that's like, Skynet in a box or something.
The mind reels.
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You are truly sick. Get some help. You, and the one who modded you insightful.
All I did was provide a useful link. And you go nuclear-fractal about it, exploding with invective and unsubstantiated speculation.
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