Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops 208
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?"
Imagine (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of! (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:2, Funny)
Are you in Colorado?
Imagine, 2 (Score:3, Funny)
ipad (Score:5, Funny)
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:Imagine (Score:3, Funny)
Forget about Linux! With this baby, I can finally run Crysis.
Re: ipad (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair, Apple are very committed to branding.