The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. The chip will be the first commercial processor with very high bandwidth memory right next to the CPU, and it will also cram dozens and dozens of cores onto a die, making it suitable for all kinds of parallel workloads that are constrained on memory bandwidth. A variant of the chip will also have an integrated 100 Gb/sec Omni-Path interconnects, giving …
Intel Stacks Knights Landing Chips Next To Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.