Intel quietly kills off next-gen Knights Hill Xeon Phi chips
The SC '17 conference is taking place this week, and while many companies are taking the opportunity to launch new products and services at the show, Intel is quietly taking the opportunity to announce the removal of a chip from its roadmap. As part of a discussion of its plans for exascale computing, or systems capable of processing one thousand petaFLOPS, Intel noted that it will abandon its next-generation Xeon Phi accelerator, code-named Knights Hill, in favor of "a new microarchitecture and a new platform specifically designed for exascale."
Although we didn't examine news of Knights Hill in depth when it first emerged, the few details that ever did come out regarding the chip suggested it would have been a follow-on to the Knights Landing Xeon Phi family fabricated on Intel's 10-nm process ...