Intel Knights Landing Co-Processor Details Released

Category: CPU's
Posted: March 30, 2015 04:18PM
Author: CheeseMan42

The Knights Landing Xeon Phi co-processor is the latest entry from Intel into the high performance computing market, taking on established products such as the NVIDIA Tesla and IBM Power8. Knights Landing will be available in three products, a co-processor, a standalone processor, and a standalone processor with integrated fabric. All three units will be able to achieve double precision floating point performance in excess of 3 teraflops using a Many Integrated Core design built with up to eight billion transistors. The 14nm chips are from the Silvermont family and will have access to up to 16GB of on-board DDR4 memory with a maximum bandwidth of 400GB/s. The Knights Landing products are expected to be available in the second half of this year.

Source: WCCF Tech