Intel’s Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops

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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?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Intel’s Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops

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